| ask | (verb) make a request or demand for something to somebody | - |
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| (verb) direct or put; seek an answer to | - |
| (verb) address a question to and expect an answer from | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: expect, require |
| (verb) require or ask for as a price or condition | - |
| (verb) make a date | Synonyms: ask out, invite out, take out |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
| asterisk | (verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: star |
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| attack | (verb) begin to injure | - |
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| (verb) set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task | - |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, lash out, round, snipe |
| (verb) launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with | Synonyms: assail |
| (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: aggress |
| (verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, assault, set on |
| back | (verb) establish as valid or genuine | Synonyms: back up |
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| (verb) strengthen by providing with a back or backing | - |
| (verb) shift to a counterclockwise direction | - |
| (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: bet on, gage, game, punt, stake |
| (verb) travel backward | - |
| (verb) cause to travel backward | - |
| (verb) support financial backing for | - |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support |
| (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: endorse, indorse, second |
| (verb) be in back of | - |
| backpack | (verb) hike with a backpack | Synonyms: pack |
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| backtrack | (verb) retrace one's course | Synonyms: double back, turn back |
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| balk | (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: baulk, jib, resist |
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| bank | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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| (verb) enclose with a bank | - |
| (verb) cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning | - |
| (verb) tip laterally | - |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: deposit |
| (verb) be in the banking business | - |
| (verb) do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank | - |
| (verb) act as the banker in a game or in gambling | - |
| bark | (verb) tan (a skin) with bark tannins | - |
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| (verb) make barking sounds | - |
| (verb) speak in an unfriendly tone | - |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: skin |
| (verb) cover with bark | - |
| barrack | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: flout, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: cheer, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) lodge in barracks | - |
| bask | (verb) be exposed | - |
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| (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: enjoy, relish, savor, savour |
| batik | (verb) dye with wax | - |
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| baulk | (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, jib, resist |
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| beak | (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: peck, pick |
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| bedeck | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedight, deck |
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| bemock | (verb) treat with contempt | Synonyms: mock |
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| bespeak | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, call for, quest, request |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: betoken, indicate, point, signal |
| bethink | (verb) consider or ponder something carefully | - |
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| (verb) cause oneself to consider something | - |
| bilk | (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: elude, evade |
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| (verb) evade payment to | - |
| (verb) cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| black | (verb) make or become black | Synonyms: blacken, melanise, melanize |
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| blackjack | (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackmail, pressure |
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| blank | (verb) keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning | - |
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| blink | (verb) briefly shut the eyes | Synonyms: nictate, nictitate, wink |
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| (verb) keep back by blinking | Synonyms: blink away, wink |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: flash, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| block | (verb) shape into a block or blocks | - |
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| (verb) shape by using a block | - |
| (verb) prohibit the conversion or use of (assets) | Synonyms: freeze, immobilise, immobilize |
| (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, draw a blank, forget |
| (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: deflect, parry |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block off, block up, blockade, stop |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: choke up, lug, stuff |
| (verb) stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block | - |
| (verb) support, secure, or raise with a block | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: obstruct |
| (verb) interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: halt, kibosh, stop |
| (verb) run on a block system | - |
| bonk | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
| book | (verb) engage for a performance | - |
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| (verb) record a charge in a police register | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: hold, reserve |
| (verb) register in a hotel booker | - |
| bootlick | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady, truckle |
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| bottleneck | (verb) become narrow, like a bottleneck | - |
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| (verb) slow down or impede by creating an obstruction | - |
| brandmark | (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, trademark |
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| break | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: fracture |
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| (verb) weaken or destroy in spirit or body | - |
| (verb) diminish or discontinue abruptly | - |
| (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments | Synonyms: come apart, fall apart, separate, split up |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: develop, recrudesce |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break off, discontinue, stop |
| (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: interrupt |
| (verb) come into being | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) render inoperable or ineffective | - |
| (verb) crack; of the male voice in puberty | - |
| (verb) fall sharply | - |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: damp, dampen, soften, weaken |
| (verb) destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments | - |
| (verb) make submissive, obedient, or useful | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) be broken in | - |
| (verb) change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another | - |
| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: check, crack |
| (verb) find the solution or key to | - |
| (verb) find a flaw in | - |
| (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: intermit, pause |
| (verb) be released or become known; of news | Synonyms: get around, get out |
| (verb) undergo breaking | - |
| (verb) interrupt the flow of current in | - |
| (verb) surpass in excellence | Synonyms: better |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: bust, fall apart, wear, wear out |
| (verb) ruin completely | Synonyms: bust |
| (verb) separate from a clinch, in boxing | - |
| (verb) break a piece from a whole | Synonyms: break off, snap off |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate | - |
| (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) exchange for smaller units of money | - |
| (verb) become punctured or penetrated | - |
| (verb) make the opening shot that scatters the balls | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: burst, erupt |
| (verb) do a break dance | Synonyms: break-dance, break dance |
| (verb) curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves | - |
| (verb) move away or escape suddenly | Synonyms: break away, break out |
| (verb) scatter or part | - |
| (verb) emerge from the surface of a body of water | - |
| (verb) make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | - |
| (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way |
| (verb) change directions suddenly | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, ruin, smash |
| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate |
| (verb) interrupt a continued activity | Synonyms: break away |
| (verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: bump, demote, kick downstairs, relegate |
| (verb) cause the failure or ruin of | - |
| (verb) invalidate by judicial action | - |
| (verb) enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act | Synonyms: break in |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break up, part, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) happen or take place | - |
| (verb) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns | Synonyms: go against, violate |
| (verb) give up | - |
| (verb) cause to give up a habit | - |
| (verb) vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity | - |
| (verb) come forth or begin from a state of latency | - |
| (verb) come to an end | - |
| brick | (verb) To stop working (of an electronic device) | - |
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| brisk | (verb) become brisk | Synonyms: brisk up, brisken |
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| brook | (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
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| buck | (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: hitch, jerk |
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| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: charge, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) resist | Synonyms: go against |
| (verb) to strive with determination | - |
| bulk | (verb) cause to bulge or swell outwards | Synonyms: bulge |
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| (verb) stick out or up | - |
| (verb) to gain size and weight by means of exercise and diet | - |
| bulwark | (verb) defend with a bulwark | - |
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| bunk | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| (verb) provide with a bunk | - |
| (verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: beat |
| bushwhack | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) cut one's way through the woods or bush | - |
| (verb) live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla | - |
| busk | (verb) play music in a public place and solicit money for it | - |
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| cakewalk | (verb) perform the cakewalk dance | - |
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| calk | (verb) injure with a calk | - |
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| (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: caulk |
| (verb) provide with calks | - |
| carjack | (verb) take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it | - |
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| cark | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| caulk | (verb) seal with caulking | Synonyms: calk |
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| chalk | (verb) write, draw, or trace with chalk | - |
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| check | (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| cheek | (verb) speak impudently to | - |
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| chink | (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
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| (verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chock | (verb) support on chocks | - |
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| (verb) secure with chocks | - |
| chuck | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: toss |
| (verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: pat |
| (verb) throw away | Synonyms: ditch |
| chunk | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: collocate, lump |
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| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: lump |
| clack | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: click, cluck |
| (verb) make a rattling sound | Synonyms: brattle, clatter |
| clank | (verb) make a clank | - |
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| clerk | (verb) work as a clerk, as in the legal business | - |
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| click | (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
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| (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, cluck |
| (verb) produce a click | - |
| (verb) cause to make a snapping sound | Synonyms: flick, snap |
| (verb) move or strike with a noise | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: tick |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: chatter |
| clink | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, tink, tinkle |
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| (verb) make a high sound typical of glass | - |
| cloak | (verb) cover with or as if with a cloak | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: clothe, drape, robe |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: dissemble, mask |
| clock | (verb) measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time | Synonyms: time |
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| cluck | (verb) make a clucking sounds, characteristic of hens | Synonyms: clack, click |
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| clunk | (verb) make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground | Synonyms: clop, clump, plunk |
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| cock | (verb) set the trigger of a firearm back for firing | - |
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| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: prance, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| (verb) tilt or slant to one side | - |
| coldcock | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: deck, dump, floor, knock down |
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| coldwork | (verb) shape (metal) without heat | Synonyms: cold work |
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| conk | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: faint, pass out, swoon |
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| (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, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) hit, especially on the head | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: stall |
| cook | (verb) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating | - |
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| (verb) transform by heating | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) prepare a hot meal | - |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| cork | (verb) stuff with cork | - |
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| (verb) close a bottle with a cork | Synonyms: cork up |
| counterattack | (verb) make a counterattack | Synonyms: counterstrike |
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| countercheck | (verb) check a second time | - |
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| (verb) oppose or check by a counteraction | Synonyms: counteract |
| countersink | (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: set |
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| crack | (verb) break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension | Synonyms: snap |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, check |
| (verb) break partially but keep its integrity | - |
| (verb) cause to become cracked | - |
| (verb) reduce (petroleum) to a simpler compound by cracking | - |
| (verb) break into simpler molecules by means of heat | - |
| (verb) pass through (a barrier) | Synonyms: break through |
| (verb) tell spontaneously | - |
| (verb) hit forcefully; deal a hard blow, making a cracking noise | - |
| (verb) suffer a nervous breakdown | Synonyms: break up, collapse, crack up, crock up |
| (verb) make a sharp sound | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a very sharp explosive sound | - |
| (verb) gain unauthorized access computers with malicious intentions | - |
| crank | (verb) rotate with a crank | Synonyms: crank up |
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| (verb) bend into the shape of a crank | - |
| (verb) fasten with a crank | - |
| (verb) start by cranking | Synonyms: crank up |
| (verb) travel along a zigzag path | Synonyms: zigzag |
| creak | (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
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| crick | (verb) twist (a body part) into a strained position | - |
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| croak | (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, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: gnarl, grumble, murmur, mutter |
| (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: cronk |
| crock | (verb) soil with or as with crock | - |
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| (verb) release color when rubbed, of badly dyed fabric | - |
| cronk | (verb) utter a hoarse sound, like a raven | Synonyms: croak |
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| (verb) cry like a goose | Synonyms: honk |
| crook | (verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
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| datemark | (verb) mark with a date and place | Synonyms: date-mark, dateline |
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| debark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: disembark, set down |
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| debunk | (verb) expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas | Synonyms: expose |
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| deck | (verb) knock down with force | Synonyms: coldcock, dump, floor, knock down |
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| (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, bedight |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
| defrock | (verb) divest of the frock; of church officials | Synonyms: unfrock |
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| detick | (verb) free (a pet) of ticks | - |
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| detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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| disembark | (verb) go ashore | Synonyms: debark, set down |
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| disk | (verb) draw a harrow over (land) | Synonyms: harrow |
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| dock | (verb) maneuver into a dock | - |
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| (verb) remove or shorten the tail of an animal | Synonyms: bob, tail |
| (verb) come into dock | - |
| (verb) deduct from someone's wages | - |
| (verb) deprive someone of benefits, as a penalty | - |
| drink | (verb) be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to | Synonyms: drink in |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: imbibe |
| (verb) consume alcohol | Synonyms: booze, fuddle, hit the bottle |
| (verb) drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic | Synonyms: tope |
| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: pledge, salute, toast, wassail |
| dropkick | (verb) make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick | Synonyms: drop-kick |
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| (verb) drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal | Synonyms: drop-kick |
| drydock | (verb) maneuver (a ship) into a drydock | Synonyms: dry-dock |
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| duck | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) to move (the head or body) quickly downwards or away | - |
| (verb) submerge or plunge suddenly | - |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, douse |
| dunk | (verb) dip into a liquid while eating | Synonyms: dip |
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| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, plunge, souse |
| (verb) make a dunk shot, in basketball | - |
| dusk | (verb) become dusk | - |
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| earmark | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, reserve, set aside |
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| embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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| embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
| fink | (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: confess, squeal |
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| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, rat, scab |
| flank | (verb) be located at the sides of something or somebody | - |
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| fleck | (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, spot |
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