| bespeckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: speckle |
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| besprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: sparge, sprinkle |
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| buckle | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: heave, warp |
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| (verb) fasten with a buckle or buckles | Synonyms: clasp |
| (verb) fold or collapse | Synonyms: crumple |
| cackle | (verb) emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing | - |
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| (verb) squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens | - |
| (verb) talk or utter in a cackling manner | - |
| (verb) make a noise characteristic of a goose | Synonyms: gaggle |
| chuckle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chortle, laugh softly |
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| cockle | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: crumple, knit, pucker, rumple |
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| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| crackle | (verb) to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks | - |
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| (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crunch, scranch, scraunch |
| (verb) make a crackling sound | Synonyms: crepitate |
| crinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| freckle | (verb) mark with freckles | - |
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| (verb) become freckled | - |
| hackle | (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hatchel, heckle |
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| heckle | (verb) challenge aggressively | - |
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| (verb) comb with a heckle | Synonyms: hackle, hatchel |
| knuckle | (verb) press or rub with the knuckles | - |
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| (verb) shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground | - |
| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| prickle | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
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| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| rankle | (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, grate |
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| ruckle | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) make a hoarse, rattling sound | - |
| shackle | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
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| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| sparkle | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth |
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| (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, scintillate |
| (verb) emit or produce sparks | Synonyms: spark |
| speckle | (verb) mark with small spots | Synonyms: bespeckle |
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| (verb) produce a mottled effect | Synonyms: stipple |
| sprinkle | (verb) scatter with liquid; wet lightly | Synonyms: besprinkle, sparge |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splash, splosh |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, scatter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, spit |
| stickle | (verb) dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points) | - |
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| strickle | (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
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| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
| tackle | (verb) seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball | - |
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| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: harness |
| (verb) accept as a challenge | Synonyms: take on, undertake |
| tickle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly | - |
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| (verb) feel sudden intense sensation or emotion | Synonyms: thrill, vibrate |
| (verb) touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements | Synonyms: titillate, vellicate |
| tinkle | (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: chink, clink, tink |
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| trickle | (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, filter |
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| truckle | (verb) try to gain favor by cringing or flattering | Synonyms: bootlick, fawn, kotow, kowtow, suck up, toady |
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| (verb) yield to out of weakness | - |
| twinkle | (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, wink, winkle |
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| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, winkle |
| unbuckle | (verb) undo the buckle of | - |
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| winkle | (verb) remove or displace from a position | Synonyms: winkle out |
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| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, flash, twinkle, wink |
| (verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: scintillate, twinkle |
| wrinkle | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, rumple |
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| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) gather or contract into wrinkles or folds; pucker | Synonyms: purse |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: crease, furrow |