| enrich | (verb) make better or improve in quality | - |
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| (verb) make wealthy or richer | - |
| entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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| (verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) make an etching of | - |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| fetch | (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, get |
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| (verb) remove | - |
| (verb) be sold for a certain price | Synonyms: bring, bring in |
| filch | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| finish | (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
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| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| fish | (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
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| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
| flash | (verb) appear briefly | - |
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| (verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
| (verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
| (verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
| (verb) expose or show briefly | - |
| flesh | (verb) remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture | - |
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| flinch | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| flourish | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
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| (verb) cause to flow through something | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
| (verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
| (verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
| flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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| frogmarch | (verb) carry someone against his will upside down such that each limb is held by one person | - |
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| (verb) march a person against his will by any method | - |
| froth | (verb) exude or expel foam | - |
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| (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, sparkle |
| (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: spume, suds |
| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| furlough | (verb) grant a leave to | - |
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| (verb) dismiss, usually for economic reasons | Synonyms: lay off |
| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| galumph | (verb) move around heavily and clumsily | - |
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| garnish | (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| gash | (verb) cut open | Synonyms: slash |
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| girth | (verb) tie a cinch around | Synonyms: cinch |
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| glitch | (verb) To suffer a minor malfunction | - |
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| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| graph | (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: chart |
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| (verb) plot upon a graph | - |
| grouch | (verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grumble, scold |
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| gush | (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
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| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| hash | (verb) chop up | - |
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| hatch | (verb) sit on (eggs) | Synonyms: brood, cover, incubate |
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| (verb) emerge from the eggs | - |
| (verb) draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper | - |
| (verb) devise or invent | Synonyms: concoct, dream up, think of, think up |
| (verb) inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating | - |
| hectograph | (verb) copy on a duplicator | - |
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| heliograph | (verb) signal by means of a mirror and the using the sun's rays | - |
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| hemstitch | (verb) sew with hemstitches | - |
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| hiccough | (verb) breathe spasmodically, and make a sound | Synonyms: hiccup |
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| hitch | (verb) to hook or entangle | Synonyms: catch |
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| (verb) connect to a vehicle: | - |
| (verb) travel by getting free rides from motorists | Synonyms: hitchhike, thumb |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hobble, limp |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, jerk |
| hunch | (verb) round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward | Synonyms: hump, hunch forward, hunch over |
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| hurrah | (verb) shout `hurrah!' | - |
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| hush | (verb) become quiet or still; fall silent | - |
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| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still |
| (verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: wash |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
| impeach | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, incriminate |
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| (verb) charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office | - |
| (verb) challenge the honesty or veracity of | - |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| inch | (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: edge |
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| intrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: entrench |
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| inveigh | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: rail |
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| (verb) speak against in an impassioned manner | Synonyms: declaim |
| itch | (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: spoil |
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| (verb) have or perceive an itch | - |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause to perceive an itch | - |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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| kvetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| lash | (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
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| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| latch | (verb) fasten with a latch | - |
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| laugh | (verb) produce laughter | Synonyms: express joy, express mirth |
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| launch | (verb) begin with vigor | Synonyms: plunge |
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| (verb) propel with force | - |
| (verb) launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage | - |
| (verb) get going; give impetus to | Synonyms: set in motion |
| (verb) smoothen the surface of | - |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, found, set up |
| lavish | (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
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| leach | (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: strip |
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| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: percolate |
| (verb) cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate | - |
| leash | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
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| leech | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, phlebotomise, phlebotomize |
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| lithograph | (verb) make by lithography | - |
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| lunch | (verb) take the midday meal | - |
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| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| lurch | (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
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| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lynch | (verb) kill without legal sanction | - |
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| malnourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: undernourish |
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| march | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge |
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| (verb) walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, parade |
| (verb) force to march | - |
| (verb) cause to march or go at a marching pace | - |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: demonstrate |
| mash | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| match | (verb) be equal or harmonize | - |
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| (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: fit |
| (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) give or join in marriage | - |
| (verb) provide funds complementary to | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, rival, touch |
| mesh | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
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| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| mimeograph | (verb) print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph | Synonyms: mimeo |
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| mismatch | (verb) match badly; match two objects or people that do not go together | - |
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| monish | (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, warn |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, caution |
| mooch | (verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite | Synonyms: bum, cadge, grub, sponge |
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| morph | (verb) change shape as via computer animation | - |
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| (verb) cause to change shape in a computer animation | - |
| mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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| mouth | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) articulate silently; form words with the lips only | - |
| (verb) touch with the mouth | - |
| mulch | (verb) cover with mulch | - |
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| munch | (verb) crush with the teeth, making a grinding sound | Synonyms: crunch |
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| mush | (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
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| (verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
| neigh | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: nicker, whicker, whinny |
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| nosh | (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: snack |
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| notch | (verb) notch a surface to record something | - |
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| (verb) cut or make a notch into | - |
| nourish | (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nurture, sustain |
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| (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nutrify |
| ooh | (verb) express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah' | Synonyms: aah |
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| outmarch | (verb) march longer distances and for a longer time than | - |
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| outmatch | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| outweigh | (verb) be heavier than | - |
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| (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, overbalance, preponderate |
| overarch | (verb) form an arch over | Synonyms: arch over |
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| (verb) be central or dominant | - |
| overreach | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit |
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| (verb) fail by aiming too high or trying too hard | - |
| overstretch | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: pull |
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| paragraph | (verb) write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher | - |
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| (verb) write about in a paragraph | - |
| (verb) divide into paragraphs, as of text | - |
| parch | (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: sear |
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| patch | (verb) mend by putting a patch on | Synonyms: patch up |
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| (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: piece |
| (verb) provide with a patch; also used metaphorically | - |
| peach | (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
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| perch | (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
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| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| perish | (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, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
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| photograph | (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: shoot, snap |
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| (verb) undergo being photographed in a certain way | - |
| pinch | (verb) irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear | Synonyms: vellicate |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, squeeze, tweet, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make ridges into by pinching together | Synonyms: crimp |
| (verb) cut the top off | Synonyms: top |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| pitch | (verb) set to a certain pitch | - |
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| (verb) set the level or character of | Synonyms: gear |
| (verb) lead (a card) and establish the trump suit | - |
| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, sky, toss |
| (verb) erect and fasten | Synonyms: set up |
| (verb) hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin | - |
| (verb) throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) fall or plunge forward | - |
| (verb) be at an angle | Synonyms: incline, slope |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, slant, tilt |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, shift |
| (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, peddle, vend |
| pith | (verb) remove the pith from (a plant) | - |
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| plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |