abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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(verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
(verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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aggregate | (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
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(verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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(verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
(verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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(verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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(verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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(verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
congregate | (verb) come together, usually for a purpose | - |
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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. | - |
corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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delegate | (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
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(verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
derogate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, minimize |
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desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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elongate | (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
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expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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gate | (verb) restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment | - |
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(verb) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate | - |
(verb) supply with a gate | - |
instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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(verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
interrogate | (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: question |
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(verb) transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication | - |
investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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(verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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(verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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(verb) bind chemically | - |
(verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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(verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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(verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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(verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
(verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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(verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
objurgate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate |
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(verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct |
obligate | (verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
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(verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
(verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
promulgate | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim |
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(verb) put a law into effect by formal declaration | - |
propagate | (verb) multiply sexually or asexually | - |
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(verb) cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering | - |
(verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread |
(verb) transmit | - |
(verb) transmit or cause to broaden or spread | - |
(verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: spread |
(verb) travel through the air | - |
(verb) transmit from one generation to the next | - |
relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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(verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
(verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
(verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
segregate | (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
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(verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
(verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
subjugate | (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subject |
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(verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue |
subrogate | (verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured | - |
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tailgate | (verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
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variegate | (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, vary |
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(verb) change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors | - |