| quack | (verb) act as a medical quack or a charlatan | - |
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| (verb) utter quacking noises | - |
| quarterback | (verb) play the quarterback | - |
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| quirk | (verb) twist or curve abruptly | - |
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| rack | (verb) torture on the rack | - |
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| (verb) seize together, as of parallel ropes of a tackle in order to prevent running through the block | - |
| (verb) place in a rack | Synonyms: rack up |
| (verb) work on a rack | - |
| (verb) stretch to the limits | - |
| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, torment, torture |
| (verb) go at a rack | Synonyms: single-foot |
| (verb) draw off from the lees | - |
| (verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: scud |
| (verb) fly in high wind | - |
| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: extort, gouge, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) put on a rack and pinion | - |
| rank | (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, order, place, range, rate |
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| (verb) take or have a position relative to others | - |
| (verb) take precedence or surpass others in rank | Synonyms: outrank |
| ransack | (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: comb |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, reave, rifle, strip |
| reek | (verb) be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face | Synonyms: fume |
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| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: stink |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: smack, smell |
| (verb) give off smoke, fumes, warm vapour, steam, etc. | - |
| remark | (verb) make mention of | Synonyms: mention, note, observe |
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| (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: comment, notice, point out |
| restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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| rethink | (verb) change one's mind | - |
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| retick | (verb) sew | Synonyms: tick |
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| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| rick | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) pile in ricks | - |
| risk | (verb) expose to a chance of loss or damage | Synonyms: lay on the line, put on the line |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| rock | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
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| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| rook | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| rubberneck | (verb) strain to watch; stare curiously | - |
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| ruck | (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: pucker, ruck up |
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| sack | (verb) put in a sack | - |
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| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: plunder |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, net, sack up |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, send away, terminate |
| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| seek | (verb) inquire for | - |
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| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, search |
| (verb) go to or towards | - |
| (verb) try to get or reach | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, try |
| shack | (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: trail |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside |
| shank | (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction | - |
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| shark | (verb) hunt shark | - |
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| (verb) play the shark; act with trickery | - |
| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| shipwreck | (verb) destroy a ship | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shock | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize |
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| (verb) subject to electrical shocks | - |
| (verb) collect or gather into shocks | - |
| (verb) collide violently | - |
| (verb) strike with horror or terror | - |
| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize |
| shriek | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shrill |
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| shrink | (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
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| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
| (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
| shuck | (verb) remove the shucks from | - |
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| (verb) remove from the shell | - |
| shuttlecock | (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
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| sick | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, retch, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| sidetrack | (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, digress, straggle |
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| sink | (verb) fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly | Synonyms: fall off, slump |
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| (verb) embed deeply | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, settle |
| (verb) fall or descend to a lower place or level | Synonyms: drop, drop down |
| (verb) cause to sink | - |
| (verb) fall or sink heavily | Synonyms: slide down, slump |
| (verb) appear to move downward | Synonyms: dip |
| (verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, pass |
| skank | (verb) dance the skank | - |
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| skreak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, squeak, whine |
| skulk | (verb) move furtively | - |
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| (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: malinger |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: lurk |
| skunk | (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: lurch |
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| skyjack | (verb) subject an aircraft to air piracy | - |
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| skylark | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, sport |
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| slack | (verb) release tension on | - |
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| (verb) make less active or fast | Synonyms: relax, slack up, slacken |
| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: abate, slake |
| (verb) become slow or slower | Synonyms: slacken, slow, slow down, slow up |
| (verb) cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water | Synonyms: slake |
| (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: abate, die away, let up, slack off |
| (verb) be inattentive to, or neglect | - |
| (verb) avoid responsibilities and work, be idle | - |
| sleek | (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: slick |
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| sleepwalk | (verb) walk in one's sleep | Synonyms: somnambulate |
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| slick | (verb) give a smooth and glossy appearance | Synonyms: sleek down, slick down |
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| (verb) make slick or smooth | Synonyms: sleek |
| slink | (verb) walk stealthily | - |
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| smack | (verb) press (the lips) together and open (the lips) noisily, as in eating | - |
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| (verb) kiss lightly | Synonyms: peck |
| (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: thwack |
| (verb) have a distinctive or characteristic taste | Synonyms: taste |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smell |
| smirk | (verb) smile affectedly or derisively | Synonyms: simper |
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| smock | (verb) embellish by sewing in straight lines crossing each other diagonally | - |
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| snack | (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: nosh |
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| sneak | (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, pussyfoot |
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| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, swipe |
| (verb) pass on stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner | - |
| snick | (verb) cut slightly, with a razor | Synonyms: nick |
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| (verb) hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat | - |
| soak | (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: imbue |
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| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, sop, souse |
| (verb) heat a metal prior to working it | - |
| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, souse |
| (verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: inebriate, intoxicate |
| (verb) beat severely | - |
| (verb) submerge in a liquid | - |
| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, surcharge |
| (verb) leave as a guarantee in return for money | Synonyms: hock, pawn |
| sock | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, whap, whop |
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| spacewalk | (verb) move in space outside a space craft | - |
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| spank | (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, paddle |
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| spark | (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
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| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: sparkle |
| spatchcock | (verb) interpolate or insert (words) into a sentence or story | - |
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| (verb) prepare for eating if or as if a spatchcock | - |
| speak | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) make a characteristic or natural sound | - |
| speck | (verb) produce specks in or on | - |
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| spelunk | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: cave |
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| spook | (verb) frighten or scare, and often provoke into a violent action | - |
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| squawk | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, grouse, holler |
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| (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, screech, skreak, skreigh |
| squeak | (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, screech, skreak, whine |
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| stack | (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, pile |
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| (verb) load or cover with stacks | - |
| (verb) arrange the order of so as to increase one's winning chances | - |
| stalk | (verb) walk stiffly | - |
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| (verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: haunt |
| (verb) go through (an area) in search of prey | - |
| stick | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: sting |
| (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, bond, hold fast, stick to |
| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cling, cohere |
| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, wedge |
| (verb) pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed | - |
| (verb) pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument | - |
| (verb) fasten with an adhesive material like glue | - |
| (verb) fasten with or as with pins or nails | - |
| (verb) fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something | - |
| (verb) cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface | - |
| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: persist, remain, stay, stay put, stick around |
| (verb) be loyal to | Synonyms: adhere, stand by, stick by |
| (verb) endure | - |
| (verb) be a devoted follower or supporter | Synonyms: adhere |
| (verb) be or become fixed | - |
| stink | (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: reek |
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| (verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance | - |
| stock | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: sprout |
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| (verb) have on hand | Synonyms: carry, stockpile |
| (verb) amass so as to keep for future use or sale or for a particular occasion or use | Synonyms: buy in, stock up |
| (verb) provide or furnish with a stock of something | - |
| (verb) supply with livestock | - |
| (verb) supply with fish | - |
| (verb) equip with a stock | - |
| streak | (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
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| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| suck | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth | - |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) draw something in by or as if by a vacuum | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: blow |
| (verb) attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc. | Synonyms: suck in |
| sulk | (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, pout |
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| swank | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, ostentate, show off |
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| tack | (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: alternate, flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch |
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| (verb) fasten with tacks | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: baste |
| (verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together |
| (verb) turn into the wind | Synonyms: wear round |
| talk | (verb) express in speech | Synonyms: mouth, speak, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) exchange thoughts; talk with | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: spill |
| (verb) use language | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) deliver a lecture or talk | Synonyms: lecture |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, tattle |
| tank | (verb) treat in a tank | - |
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| (verb) consume excessive amounts of alcohol | - |
| (verb) store in a tank by causing (something) to flow into it | - |
| task | (verb) use to the limit | Synonyms: tax |
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| (verb) assign a task to | - |
| thank | (verb) express gratitude or show appreciation to | Synonyms: give thanks |
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| think | (verb) bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation | - |
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| (verb) use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments | Synonyms: cerebrate, cogitate |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, consider |
| (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, retrieve |
| (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, imagine, opine, reckon, suppose |
| (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, mean |
| (verb) be capable of conscious thought | - |
| (verb) focus one's attention on a certain state | - |
| (verb) decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting | - |
| (verb) ponder; reflect on, or reason about | - |
| (verb) have or formulate in the mind | - |
| (verb) dispose the mind in a certain way | - |
| (verb) imagine or visualize | - |
| thumbtack | (verb) fasten with thumbtacks | - |
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| thwack | (verb) deliver a hard blow to | Synonyms: smack |
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| tick | (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check, check off, mark, mark off, tick off |
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| (verb) sew | Synonyms: retick |
| (verb) make a clicking or ticking sound | Synonyms: click |
| (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, ticktack, ticktock |
| ticktack | (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktock |
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| ticktock | (verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: beat, tick, ticktack |
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| tink | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, clink, tinkle |
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| tomahawk | (verb) cut with a tomahawk | - |
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| (verb) kill with a tomahawk | - |
| track | (verb) make tracks upon | - |
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| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse |
| (verb) carry on the feet and deposit | - |
| (verb) observe or plot the moving path of something | - |
| trademark | (verb) register the trademark of | - |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, brandmark |
| trek | (verb) make a long and difficult journey | - |
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| (verb) journey on foot, especially in the mountains | - |
| trick | (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on |
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| truck | (verb) convey (goods etc.) by truck | - |
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| tsk | (verb) utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | Synonyms: tut-tut, tut |
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| tuck | (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: insert |
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| (verb) make a tuck or several folds in | - |
| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, pucker |
| tusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: detusk |
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| (verb) stab or pierce with a horn or tusk | Synonyms: horn |
| tweak | (verb) adjust finely | Synonyms: fine-tune |
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| (verb) to be under the influence of methamphetamine | - |
| (verb) pull or pull out sharply | Synonyms: pick off, pluck, pull off |
| (verb) pinch or squeeze sharply | - |
| twerk | (verb) to dance with thrusting hip movements and a low squatting stance | - |
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| unblock | (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, release, unfreeze |
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| (verb) play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding | - |
| (verb) clear or remove an obstruction from | - |