| accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
| acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
| admit | (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
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| (verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, take, take on |
| (verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: include, let in |
| (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: allow in, intromit, let in |
| (verb) give access or entrance to | - |
| (verb) serve as a means of entrance | - |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, hold |
| (verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: allow |
| audit | (verb) attend academic courses without getting credit | - |
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| (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize |
| await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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| babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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| (verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
| bait | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| (verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon | - |
| (verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait | - |
| befit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: beseem, suit |
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| benefit | (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: gain, profit |
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| (verb) be beneficial for | Synonyms: do good |
| bruit | (verb) tell or spread rumors | Synonyms: rumor, rumour |
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| bullshit | (verb) speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | Synonyms: bull, fake, talk through one's hat |
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| circuit | (verb) make a circuit | - |
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| cohabit | (verb) share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple | Synonyms: live together, shack up |
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| (verb) exist together | Synonyms: coexist |
| comfit | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: confect, confection |
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| commit | (verb) make a set of changes permanent | - |
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| (verb) transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved | - |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: confide, entrust, intrust, trust |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: invest, place, put |
| (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: perpetrate, pull |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: practice |
| copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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| counterfeit | (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
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| credit | (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
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| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| debit | (verb) enter as debit | - |
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| delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
| deposit | (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
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| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| discomfit | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discompose, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| discredit | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
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| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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| edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
| (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
| (verb) supervise the publication of | - |
| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| emit | (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: breathe, pass off |
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| (verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: let loose, let out, utter |
| (verb) give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. | Synonyms: give off, give out |
| exhibit | (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
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| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
| (verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
| exit | (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, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| (verb) lose the lead | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: get out, go out, leave |
| exploit | (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: tap |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: overwork |
| exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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| (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, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| fit | (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: match |
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| (verb) make fit | - |
| (verb) insert or adjust several objects or people | - |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit out, outfit |
| (verb) be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) conform to some shape or size | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: accommodate, suit |
| flit | (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flutter |
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| forfeit | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| fruit | (verb) bear fruit | - |
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| (verb) cause to bear fruit | - |
| grit | (verb) clench together | - |
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| (verb) cover with a grit | - |
| habit | (verb) put a habit on | - |
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| hit | (verb) pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to | - |
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| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: pip, shoot |
| (verb) hit the intended target or goal | - |
| (verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, impinge on, run into, strike |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) cause to move by striking | - |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, reach |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, strike |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| inhabit | (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, live, populate |
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| (verb) be present in | - |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: dwell |
| inherit | (verb) obtain from someone after their death | - |
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| (verb) receive by genetic transmission | - |
| (verb) receive from a predecessor | - |
| inhibit | (verb) prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something | - |
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| (verb) make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally | - |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, suppress |
| (verb) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of | - |
| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| intermit | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, pause |
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| intromit | (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: admit, allow in, let in |
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| intuit | (verb) know or grasp by intuition or feeling | - |
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| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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| kit | (verb) supply with a set of articles or tools | Synonyms: kit out, kit up |
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| knit | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, pucker, rumple |
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| (verb) make (textiles) by knitting | - |
| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: entwine |
| limit | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
| manumit | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: emancipate |
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| merit | (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: deserve |
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| omit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, take out |
| orbit | (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, revolve |
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| outfit | (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit, fit out |
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| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| overexploit | (verb) exploit excessively | - |
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| permit | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, let |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, tolerate |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, let |
| pit | (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: stone |
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| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, oppose, play off |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pock, scar |
| plait | (verb) weave into plaits | - |
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| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
| posit | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
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| (verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
| pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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| (verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
| profit | (verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
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| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| quit | (verb) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat | Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel |
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| (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: depart, take leave |
| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, resign, step down |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop |
| rabbit | (verb) hunt rabbits | - |
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| readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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| (verb) admit again or anew | - |
| recommit | (verb) send back to a committee | - |
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| (verb) commit again | - |
| (verb) commit once again, as of a crime | - |
| recruit | (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, raise |
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| (verb) seek to employ | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, raise |
| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| refit | (verb) fit out again | - |
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| remit | (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: slacken |
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| (verb) diminish or abate | - |
| (verb) release from (claims, debts, or taxes) | - |
| (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remand, send back |
| (verb) forgive | - |
| (verb) send (money) in payment | - |
| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table |
| reposit | (verb) put (something) in a place for storage | - |
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| resubmit | (verb) submit (information) again to a program or automatic system | Synonyms: feed back |
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| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| retrofit | (verb) substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones | - |
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| (verb) fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house | - |
| (verb) provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture | - |
| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| shit | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| sit | (verb) serve in a specific professional capacity | - |
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| (verb) be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for | Synonyms: seat, sit down |
| (verb) take a seat | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) be in session | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: ride |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, posture |
| (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, babysit |
| (verb) be around, often idly or without specific purpose | Synonyms: sit around |
| (verb) be located or situated somewhere | - |
| slit | (verb) cut a slit into | - |
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| (verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slice |
| solicit | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, tap |
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| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, hook |
| (verb) incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination | - |
| (verb) make a solicitation or petition for something desired | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, romance, woo |
| spirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: inspirit, spirit up |
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| spit | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spew, spue |
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| (verb) utter with anger or contempt | Synonyms: spit out |
| (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: skewer |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, sprinkle |
| split | (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, burst |
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| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, rive |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, part, separate, split up |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split up |
| subedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, copyread |
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| submit | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, resign |
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| (verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, state |
| (verb) refer for judgment or consideration | - |
| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, defer, give in |
| (verb) yield to the control of another | - |
| (verb) make an application as for a job or funding | Synonyms: put in |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, relegate |
| suit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, beseem |
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| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: become |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: accommodate, fit |
| summit | (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: breast |
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| surfeit | (verb) indulge (one's appetite) to satiety | - |
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| (verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: cloy |
| transit | (verb) make a passage or journey from one place to another | Synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through |
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| (verb) cause or enable to pass through | - |
| (verb) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction | - |
| (verb) pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place) | - |
| transmit | (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, send |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transport |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, impart |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, convey |
| twit | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease |
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| unfit | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, indispose |
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| visit | (verb) assail | - |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze |
| (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, inflict |
| (verb) go to certain places as for sightseeing | Synonyms: travel to |
| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: inspect |
| (verb) pay a brief visit | Synonyms: call, call in |
| (verb) go to see a place, as for entertainment | Synonyms: see |
| (verb) stay with as a guest | - |
| vomit | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit up |
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| wait | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, look |
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| (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: waitress |
| (verb) stay in one place and anticipate or expect something | - |
| (verb) wait before acting | Synonyms: hold back, hold off |