| outrival | (verb) be more of a rival than | Synonyms: outvie |
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| outsail | (verb) sail faster or better than | - |
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| outsell | (verb) sell more than others | - |
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| (verb) be sold more often than other, similar products | - |
| overboil | (verb) overflow or cause to overflow while boiling | Synonyms: boil over |
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| (verb) boil excessively | - |
| overfill | (verb) fill beyond capacity | - |
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| overhaul | (verb) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
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| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overtake, pass |
| pal | (verb) become friends; act friendly towards | Synonyms: chum up, pal up |
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| pall | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, tire, weary |
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| (verb) lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to) | - |
| (verb) become less interesting or attractive | Synonyms: dull |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, die |
| (verb) cause to become flat | - |
| (verb) cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing | Synonyms: cloy |
| (verb) cover with a pall | - |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, scare, scare away, scare off |
| panel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: empanel, impanel |
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| (verb) decorate with panels | - |
| parallel | (verb) make or place parallel to something | Synonyms: collimate |
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| (verb) be parallel to | - |
| (verb) duplicate or match | Synonyms: duplicate, twin |
| parboil | (verb) cook (vegetables) briefly | Synonyms: blanch |
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| parcel | (verb) make into a wrapped container | - |
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| (verb) cover with strips of canvas | - |
| (verb) divide into parts | - |
| patrol | (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: police |
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| peal | (verb) ring recurrently | - |
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| (verb) sound loudly and sonorously | Synonyms: ring |
| pearl | (verb) gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean | - |
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| pedal | (verb) operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument | - |
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| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, wheel |
| peel | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, skin |
| (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off |
| pencil | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a pencil | - |
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| peril | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, threaten |
| poll | (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: pollard |
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| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: canvass |
| (verb) vote in an election at a polling station | - |
| (verb) get the votes of | - |
| pommel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pummel |
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| pool | (verb) join or form a pool of people | - |
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| (verb) combine into a common fund | - |
| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| propel | (verb) cause to move forward with force | Synonyms: impel |
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| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, prompt |
| prowl | (verb) move about in or as if in a predatory manner | - |
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| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: lurch |
| pull | (verb) strain abnormally | Synonyms: overstretch |
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| (verb) take away | - |
| (verb) take sides with; align oneself with; show strong sympathy for | Synonyms: root for, side with |
| (verb) cause to move by pulling | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: rend, rip, rive |
| (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: attract, draw, draw in, pull in |
| (verb) hit in the direction that the player is facing when carrying through the swing | - |
| (verb) apply force so as to cause motion towards the source of the motion | - |
| (verb) strip of feathers | Synonyms: deplumate, deplume, displume, pluck, tear |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, extract, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) steer into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) move into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) operate when rowing a boat | - |
| (verb) bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover | Synonyms: draw, get out, pull out, take out |
| (verb) rein in to keep from winning a race | - |
| (verb) cause to move in a certain direction by exerting a force upon, either physically or in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, perpetrate |
| pummel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pommel |
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| purl | (verb) make a murmuring sound | Synonyms: sough |
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| (verb) embroider with gold or silver thread | - |
| (verb) edge or border with gold or silver embroidery | - |
| (verb) knit with a purl stitch | - |
| (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: eddy, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
| quail | (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, recoil, shrink, squinch, wince |
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| quarrel | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, scrap |
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| quell | (verb) suppress or crush completely | Synonyms: quench, squelch |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: appease, stay |
| rail | (verb) complain bitterly | Synonyms: inveigh |
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| (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: revile, vilify, vituperate |
| (verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: fulminate |
| (verb) fish with a handline over the rails of a boat | - |
| (verb) lay with rails | - |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) separate with a railing | Synonyms: rail off |
| (verb) convey (goods etc.) by rails | - |
| (verb) provide with rails | - |
| (verb) enclose with rails | Synonyms: rail in |
| rappel | (verb) descend by means of a rappel | Synonyms: abseil, rope down |
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| ravel | (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: knot, tangle |
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| (verb) disentangle | Synonyms: ravel out, unravel |
| reassail | (verb) assail again | - |
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| rebel | (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rise, rise up |
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| (verb) break with established customs | Synonyms: renegade |
| recall | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recollect, remember, retrieve, think |
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| (verb) cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression | - |
| (verb) go back to something earlier | Synonyms: come back, hark back, return |
| (verb) summon to return | Synonyms: call back |
| (verb) cause to be returned | Synonyms: call back, call in, withdraw |
| (verb) make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution | - |
| (verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: echo |
| recoil | (verb) spring back, as from a forceful thrust | Synonyms: kick, kick back |
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| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, shrink, squinch, wince |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, backlash |
| reel | (verb) wind onto or off a reel | - |
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| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, lurch, stagger, swag |
| (verb) revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis | Synonyms: gyrate, spin, spin around, whirl |
| refill | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, replenish |
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| refuel | (verb) take on more fuel, as of a plane, ship, or car | - |
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| (verb) provide with additional fuel, as of aircraft, ships, and cars | - |
| reheel | (verb) put a new heel on | Synonyms: heel |
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| reinstall | (verb) install again | - |
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| remodel | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: reconstruct, redo |
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| (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: recast, reforge |
| repeal | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| repel | (verb) reject outright and bluntly | Synonyms: rebuff, snub |
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| (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repulse |
| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repulse |
| (verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repulse |
| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, revolt |
| reseal | (verb) seal again | - |
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| resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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| retail | (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
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| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |
| retool | (verb) provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools | - |
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| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: revise |
| reveal | (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: break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, uncover, unwrap |
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| (verb) make manifest | Synonyms: bring out, unveil |
| (verb) disclose directly or through prophets | - |
| revel | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: delight, enjoy |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, wassail, whoop it up |
| rival | (verb) be the rival of, be in competition with | - |
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| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, touch |
| roil | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: rile |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, moil |
| roll | (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
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| (verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
| (verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
| (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) shape by rolling | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
| (verb) begin operating or running | - |
| (verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
| (verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
| (verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
| sail | (verb) travel on water propelled by wind | - |
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| (verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sweep |
| (verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, voyage |
| (verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water) | - |
| school | (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
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| (verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |
| scowl | (verb) frown with displeasure | - |
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| scrawl | (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
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| scroll | (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
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| scull | (verb) propel with sculls | - |
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| seal | (verb) decide irrevocably | - |
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| (verb) hunt seals | - |
| (verb) close with or as if with a seal | - |
| (verb) affix a seal to | - |
| (verb) make tight; secure against leakage | Synonyms: seal off |
| (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: varnish |
| seel | (verb) sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons | - |
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| sell | (verb) persuade somebody to accept something | - |
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| (verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent | - |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, trade |
| (verb) give up for a price or reward | - |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be responsible for the sale of | - |
| (verb) be approved of or gain acceptance | - |
| shell | (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
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| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
| (verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
| (verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |
| shill | (verb) act as a shill | - |
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| shoal | (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shallow |
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| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shallow |
| shovel | (verb) dig with or as if with a shovel | - |
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| shrill | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shriek |
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| shrivel | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel up, wither |
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| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrink |
| signal | (verb) communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs | Synonyms: sign, signalise, signalize |
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| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point |
| skirl | (verb) play the bagpipes | - |
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| (verb) make a shrill, wailing sound | - |
| smell | (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: sense, smell out |
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| (verb) emit an odor | - |
| (verb) inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense | - |
| (verb) smell bad | - |
| (verb) have an element suggestive (of something) | Synonyms: reek, smack |
| snail | (verb) gather snails | - |
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| snarl | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: embrangle, snarl up |
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| (verb) utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone | Synonyms: snap |
| (verb) make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise | - |
| (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, mat, tangle |
| snivel | (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snuffle |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snuffle |
| (verb) talk in a tearful manner | Synonyms: whine |
| snorkel | (verb) dive with a snorkel | - |
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| snowball | (verb) increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate | - |
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| (verb) throw snowballs at | - |
| soil | (verb) make soiled, filthy, or dirty | Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime |
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| spell | (verb) take turns working | - |
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| (verb) orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of | Synonyms: spell out |
| (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: import |
| (verb) place under a spell | - |
| (verb) write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word) | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn | - |
| spiel | (verb) speak at great length (about something) | - |
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| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: play |
| spill | (verb) reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail) | - |
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| (verb) reveal information | Synonyms: talk |
| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, shed |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, shed |
| (verb) cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container | Synonyms: slop, splatter |
| (verb) flow, run or fall out and become lost | Synonyms: run out |
| spiral | (verb) to wind or move in a spiral course | Synonyms: coil, gyrate |
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| (verb) move in a spiral or zigzag course | Synonyms: corkscrew |
| (verb) form a spiral | - |
| spoil | (verb) become unfit for consumption or use | Synonyms: go bad |
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| (verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: corrupt |
| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, mar, vitiate |
| (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, plunder, rape, violate |
| (verb) have a strong desire or urge to do something | Synonyms: itch |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, thwart |
| (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, pamper |
| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up |
| spool | (verb) wind onto a spool or a reel | - |
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| (verb) transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage | - |
| sprawl | (verb) sit or lie with one's limbs spread out | - |
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| (verb) go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way | Synonyms: straggle |
| squall | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, yell |
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| (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: waul, wawl |
| (verb) blow in a squall | - |
| squeal | (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: confess, fink |
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| (verb) utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs | Synonyms: oink |
| stall | (verb) deliberately delay an event or action | - |
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| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: conk |
| (verb) cause an engine to stop | - |
| (verb) cause an airplane to go into a stall | - |
| (verb) experience a stall in flight, of airplanes | - |
| (verb) put into, or keep in, a stall | - |
| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally |
| steal | (verb) steal a base | - |
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| (verb) move stealthily | Synonyms: slip |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip, rip off |
| steamroll | (verb) make level or flat with a steamroller | Synonyms: steamroller |
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| (verb) overwhelm by using great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) proceed with great force | Synonyms: steamroller |
| (verb) bring to a specified state by overwhelming force or pressure | Synonyms: steamroller |
| steel | (verb) cover, plate, or edge with steel | - |
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| (verb) get ready for something difficult or unpleasant | Synonyms: nerve |
| stencil | (verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
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| still | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, quieten, shut up, silence |
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| (verb) make motionless | - |
| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, ease, relieve |
| stonewall | (verb) engage in delaying tactics or refuse to cooperate | - |
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| (verb) obstruct or hinder any discussion | - |
| stool | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, shit, take a crap, take a shit |
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| (verb) grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers | Synonyms: tiller |
| (verb) react to a decoy, of wildfowl | - |
| (verb) lure with a stool, as of wild fowl | - |
| stroll | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
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| surveil | (verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: follow, survey |
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| swell | (verb) expand abnormally | Synonyms: intumesce, swell up, tumefy, tumesce |
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| (verb) cause to become swollen | - |
| (verb) increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity | - |
| (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: well |
| (verb) become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger | Synonyms: puff up |
| (verb) come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things) | Synonyms: well up |