| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| affiliate | (verb) join in an affiliation | - |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
| alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| appropriate | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
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| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
| asphyxiate | (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: stifle, suffocate |
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| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: smother, suffocate |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate |
| associate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: consociate |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort |
| aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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| circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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| conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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| consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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| (verb) unite in one common substance | - |
| dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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| defoliate | (verb) strip the leaves or branches from | - |
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| depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) lower the value of something | - |
| (verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
| deviate | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
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| (verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
| disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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| dissociate | (verb) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | - |
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| (verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: decouple |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce |
| domiciliate | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: house, put up |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, reside, shack |
| emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
| enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
| excoriate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: chafe |
| excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
| exfoliate | (verb) grow by producing or unfolding leaves | - |
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| (verb) cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters | - |
| (verb) remove the surface, in scales or laminae | - |
| (verb) spread by opening the leaves of | - |
| (verb) come off in a very thin piece | - |
| expatiate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
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| expatriate | (verb) move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad | - |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, exile |
| expiate | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, atone |
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| expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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| exuviate | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: molt, moult, shed, slough |
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| filiate | (verb) fix the paternity of | - |
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| foliate | (verb) grow leaves | - |
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| (verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: page, paginate |
| (verb) coat or back with metal foil | - |
| (verb) hammer into thin flat foils | - |
| (verb) decorate with leaves | - |
| glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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| (verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
| humiliate | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, mortify |
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| inebriate | (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
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| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
| infuriate | (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, incense |
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| ingratiate | (verb) gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | - |
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| initiate | (verb) set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for | Synonyms: lead up |
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| (verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: broach |
| (verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: pioneer |
| (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: originate, start |
| (verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: induct |
| instantiate | (verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) | - |
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| (verb) represent by an instance | - |
| intermediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate |
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| irradiate | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: ray |
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| (verb) cast rays of light upon | - |
| (verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: enlighten |
| luxuriate | (verb) thrive profusely or flourish extensively | - |
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| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: wanton |
| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: indulge |
| mediate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise |
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| (verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others | - |
| miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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| (verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
| misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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| negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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| (verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
| (verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
| (verb) sell or discount | - |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
| negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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| (verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
| obviate | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, stave off, ward off |
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| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: eliminate, rid of |
| officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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| (verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
| palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, relieve |
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| (verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, mitigate |
| potentiate | (verb) increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) | - |
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| propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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| radiate | (verb) send out real or metaphoric rays; the children radiated joyous energy | - |
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| (verb) issue or emerge in rays or waves | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: diversify |
| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, shine |
| (verb) cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays | - |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, shine |
| (verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: ray |
| (verb) send out rays or waves | - |
| remediate | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remedy, repair |
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| renegociate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegotiate |
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| (verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegotiate |
| renegotiate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegociate |
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| (verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegociate |
| repatriate | (verb) admit back into the country | - |
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| (verb) send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees | - |
| repudiate | (verb) refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid | - |
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| (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, renounce |
| (verb) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust | - |
| (verb) refuse to recognize or pay | - |
| retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
| satiate | (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, sate |
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| (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, stuff |
| speciate | (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, specialize |
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| striate | (verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
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| substantiate | (verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate |
| thoriate | (verb) impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission | - |
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| transubstantiate | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
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| (verb) change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ | - |
| vitiate | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective | Synonyms: invalidate, void |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, spoil |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert |