| pleach | (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: plash |
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| (verb) form or weave into a braid or braids | Synonyms: braid |
| plough | (verb) to break and turn over earth especially with a plow | Synonyms: plow, turn |
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| (verb) move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil | Synonyms: plow |
| poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
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| (verb) hunt illegally | - |
| polish | (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off |
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| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen |
| pooch | (verb) round one's lips as if intending to kiss | Synonyms: pooch out |
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| pouch | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, protrude |
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| (verb) put into a small bag | - |
| (verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | - |
| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
| publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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| (verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
| punch | (verb) deliver a quick blow to | Synonyms: plug |
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| (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) drive forcibly as if by a punch | - |
| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| push | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, promote |
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| (verb) press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action | Synonyms: bear on |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: press |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) press against forcefully without moving | - |
| (verb) move strenuously and with effort | - |
| (verb) sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs) | - |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, tug |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press |
| quash | (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void |
| quench | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, squelch |
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| (verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid | - |
| (verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance | - |
| (verb) satisfy (thirst) | Synonyms: allay, assuage, slake |
| (verb) suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device | - |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, extinguish, snuff out |
| quetch | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, sound off |
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| ranch | (verb) manage or run a ranch | - |
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| ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
| reach | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: contact, get hold of, get through |
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| (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: strain, strive |
| (verb) move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense | Synonyms: reach out |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, hit |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, make |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, make, progress to |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass, pass on, turn over |
| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: accomplish, achieve, attain |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, touch |
| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refresh | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: freshen |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, review |
| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| rehash | (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, retrograde |
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| (verb) present or use over, with no or few changes | - |
| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| relish | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, savor, savour |
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| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| reproach | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
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| republish | (verb) revive (a cancelled will or a libel) | - |
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| (verb) publish again | - |
| research | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
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| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| retch | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, heave |
| retouch | (verb) alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | Synonyms: touch up |
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| (verb) give retouches to (hair) | - |
| retrench | (verb) make a reduction, as in one's workforce | - |
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| (verb) tighten one's belt; use resources carefully | - |
| rewatch | (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| roach | (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
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| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| rough | (verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
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| rubbish | (verb) attack strongly | - |
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| rush | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
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| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
| (verb) attack suddenly | - |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
| sandwich | (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
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| (verb) make into a sandwich | - |
| scorch | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
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| (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
| (verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
| (verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
| (verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
| scotch | (verb) make a small cut or score into | - |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, spoil, thwart |
| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| scratch | (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| screech | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, skreak, squeak, whine |
| scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| search | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, research |
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| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, seek |
| (verb) subject to a search | - |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: look |
| shush | (verb) silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | - |
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| sigh | (verb) heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily | Synonyms: suspire |
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| (verb) utter with a sigh | - |
| sketch | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: adumbrate, outline |
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| (verb) make a sketch of | Synonyms: chalk out |
| skirmish | (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
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| skreigh | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squawk |
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| slash | (verb) cut drastically | - |
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| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| sleigh | (verb) ride (on) a sled | Synonyms: sled |
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| sleuth | (verb) watch, observe, or inquire secretly | Synonyms: snoop, spy, stag |
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| slosh | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slush, splash, splosh |
| slouch | (verb) walk slovenly | - |
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| (verb) assume a drooping posture or carriage | Synonyms: slump |
| slough | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, shed |
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| slush | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh, slosh around, slush around |
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| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh |
| smash | (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: dash |
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| (verb) break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow | - |
| (verb) overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful) | - |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, nail |
| (verb) collide or strike violently and suddenly | - |
| (verb) hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy as if by violence | Synonyms: bang up, smash up |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) hit violently | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin |
| smirch | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, calumniate, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, sully |
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| (verb) smear so as to make dirty or stained | Synonyms: besmirch |
| smooch | (verb) snuggle and lie in a position where one person faces the back of the others | Synonyms: spoon |
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| smooth | (verb) make smooth or smoother, as if by rubbing | Synonyms: smoothen |
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| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, shine, smoothen |
| (verb) free from obstructions | Synonyms: smooth out |
| smutch | (verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging | Synonyms: blur, smear, smudge |
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| snatch | (verb) to grasp hastily or eagerly | Synonyms: snap, snatch up |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, nobble |
| (verb) to make grasping motions | - |
| snitch | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, shop, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: cop, glom, hook, knock off, thieve |
| sough | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: purl |
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| splash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |
| splosh | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, sprinkle |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splash |
| splotch | (verb) blotch or spot | - |
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| squash | (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squeeze, squelch |
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| squelch | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quell, quench |
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| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, mash, squash, squeeze |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squish |
| (verb) make a sucking sound | - |
| squinch | (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squint |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, wince |
| (verb) crouch down | - |
| squish | (verb) put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action | - |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch |
| stanch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, staunch, stem |
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| starch | (verb) stiffen with starch | - |
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| stash | (verb) save up as for future use | Synonyms: cache, hive up, hoard, lay away, squirrel away |
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| staunch | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: halt, stanch, stem |
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| stenograph | (verb) write in shorthand | - |
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| stitch | (verb) fasten by sewing; do needlework | Synonyms: run up, sew, sew together |
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| stomach | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| (verb) bear to eat | - |
| stonewash | (verb) wash with stones to achieve a worn appearance | Synonyms: stone-wash |
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| stretch | (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: extend |
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| (verb) extend one's body or limbs | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) become longer by being stretched and pulled | - |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: elongate |
| (verb) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly | - |
| (verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load |
| (verb) pull in opposite directions | - |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold |
| (verb) lie down comfortably | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) occupy a large, elongated area | Synonyms: stretch along |
| swash | (verb) act in an arrogant, overly self-assured, or conceited manner | Synonyms: bluster, swagger |
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| (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, tout, vaunt |
| (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splash, splatter, splosh |
| (verb) make violent, noisy movements | - |
| swish | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swoosh, swosh |
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| switch | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, tack |
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| (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, shift |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, shift |
| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: exchange, switch over |
| (verb) cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation | Synonyms: flip, throw |
| (verb) flog with or as if with a flexible rod | - |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, swop, trade |
| swoosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swosh |
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| swosh | (verb) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound | Synonyms: lap, swish, swoosh |
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| tarnish | (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, maculate, stain, sully |
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| teach | (verb) accustom gradually to some action or attitude | - |
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| (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: instruct, learn |
| telegraph | (verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: cable, wire |
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| thatch | (verb) cover with thatch | - |
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| thrash | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thresh |
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| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thresh |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick |
| (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: mosh, slam, slam dance |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all | - |
| (verb) move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation | - |
| thresh | (verb) give a thrashing to; beat hard | Synonyms: flail, lam, thrash |
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| (verb) beat the seeds out of a grain | Synonyms: thrash |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) move like a flail; thresh about | Synonyms: flail |
| torch | (verb) burn maliciously, as by arson | - |
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| touch | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch on |
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| (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, tint |
| (verb) comprehend | - |
| (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: advert, allude |
| (verb) consume | Synonyms: partake |
| (verb) make physical contact with, come in contact with | - |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, meet |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) cause to be in brief contact with | - |
| (verb) affect emotionally | Synonyms: stir |
| (verb) perceive via the tactile sense | - |
| (verb) deal with; usually used with a form of negation | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, touch on |
| (verb) to extend as far as | Synonyms: extend to, reach |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, rival |
| trash | (verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: pan, tear apart |
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| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, scrap |
| trench | (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
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| (verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
| (verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
| (verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
| triumph | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, gloat |
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| (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, rejoice |
| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: prevail |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, wallow |
| twitch | (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: jerk |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, tweet, twinge |
| (verb) move or pull with a sudden motion | - |
| (verb) toss with a sharp movement so as to cause to turn over in the air | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: jerk |