| muscle | (verb) make one's way by force | - |
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| muzzle | (verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: gag |
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| (verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) fit with a muzzle | - |
| nasale | (verb) speak in a nasal voice | - |
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| needle | (verb) annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism | Synonyms: goad |
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| (verb) prick with a needle | - |
| nestle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nuzzle, snuggle |
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| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: snuggle |
| (verb) lie in a sheltered position | - |
| nettle | (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex |
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| (verb) sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation | Synonyms: urticate |
| nibble | (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: pick, piece |
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| (verb) bite off very small pieces | - |
| (verb) bite gently | - |
| niggle | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, fuss |
| nobble | (verb) disable by drugging | - |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, snatch |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| nuzzle | (verb) rub noses | Synonyms: nose |
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| (verb) dig out with the snout | - |
| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, snuggle |
| offsaddle | (verb) remove the saddle from | Synonyms: unsaddle |
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| ogle | (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: perv, perve |
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| overrule | (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overthrow, overturn, reverse |
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| paddle | (verb) stir with a paddle | - |
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| (verb) give a spanking to; subject to a spanking | Synonyms: larrup, spank |
| (verb) propel with a paddle | - |
| (verb) swim like a dog in shallow water | - |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, toddle, totter, waddle |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: dabble, splash around |
| pale | (verb) turn pale, as if in fear | Synonyms: blanch, blench |
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| panhandle | (verb) beg by accosting people in the street and asking for money | - |
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| parole | (verb) release a criminal from detention and place him on parole | - |
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| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| people | (verb) fill with people | - |
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| (verb) furnish with people | - |
| pestle | (verb) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | - |
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| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| piddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| piffle | (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| pigeonhole | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
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| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| pile | (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
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| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |
| pinnacle | (verb) raise on or as if on a pinnacle | - |
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| (verb) surmount with a pinnacle | - |
| pole | (verb) deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole | - |
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| (verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: punt |
| (verb) support on poles | - |
| prattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| preamble | (verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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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 |
| profile | (verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
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| (verb) write about | - |
| puddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) mix up or confuse | Synonyms: addle, muddle |
| (verb) mess around, as in a liquid or paste | - |
| (verb) make into a puddle | Synonyms: muddle |
| (verb) work a wet mixture, such as concrete or mud | - |
| (verb) make a puddle by splashing water | - |
| (verb) dip into mud before planting | - |
| (verb) subject to puddling or form by puddling | - |
| (verb) wade or dabble in a puddle | - |
| pule | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, wail, whimper |
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| purple | (verb) color purple | Synonyms: empurple, purpurate |
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| (verb) become purple | - |
| puzzle | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide | - |
| quadruple | (verb) increase fourfold | - |
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| quibble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, squabble |
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| (verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | - |
| quintuple | (verb) increase fivefold | - |
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| raddle | (verb) mark or paint with raddle | - |
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| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: ruddle |
| raffle | (verb) dispose of in a lottery | Synonyms: raffle off |
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| ramble | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| (verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: jog, ramble on |
| rankle | (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, fret, grate |
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| rattle | (verb) shake and cause to make a rattling noise | - |
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| (verb) make short successive sounds | - |
| reassemble | (verb) assemble once again, after taking something apart | - |
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| reconcile | (verb) bring into consonance or accord | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, conciliate |
| (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: resign, submit |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, settle |
| recycle | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: reprocess, reuse |
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| (verb) cause to repeat a cycle | - |
| redouble | (verb) double in magnitude, extent, or intensity | - |
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| (verb) make twice as great or intense | - |
| (verb) double again | - |
| regale | (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: treat |
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| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| resemble | (verb) appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to | - |
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| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| reshuffle | (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
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| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| resile | (verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed | - |
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| (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. | - |
| resole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: sole |
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| revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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| riddle | (verb) explain a riddle | - |
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| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| ridicule | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
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| riffle | (verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
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| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
| rifle | (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
| rile | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: roil |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, vex |
| ripple | (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ruffle, undulate |
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| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle |
| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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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 | - |
| ruddle | (verb) redden as if with a red ocher color | - |
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| (verb) twist or braid together, interlace | Synonyms: raddle |
| ruffle | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: pleat |
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| (verb) erect or fluff up | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle up, rumple |
| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, riffle |
| (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, shuffle |
| (verb) trouble or vex | - |
| (verb) discompose | - |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ripple, undulate |
| (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
| rule | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: harness, rein |
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| (verb) decide with authority | Synonyms: decree |
| (verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: find |
| (verb) mark or draw with a ruler | - |
| (verb) exercise authority over; as of nations | Synonyms: govern |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, prevail, reign |
| (verb) have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac | - |
| rumble | (verb) to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds | Synonyms: growl, grumble |
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| (verb) make a low noise | Synonyms: grumble |
| rumple | (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crumple, wrinkle |
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| (verb) disturb the smoothness of | Synonyms: mess up, ruffle, ruffle up |
| (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, pucker |
| rustle | (verb) make a dry crackling sound | - |
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| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: lift |
| (verb) forage food | - |
| saddle | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
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| (verb) put a saddle on | - |
| (verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
| sample | (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: taste, try, try out |
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| scale | (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
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| (verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
| (verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
| (verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
| (verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
| (verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
| (verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
| schedule | (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
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| (verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
| scrabble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
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| (verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
| scramble | (verb) make unintelligible | - |
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| (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: jumble, throw together |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: beat |
| (verb) to move hurriedly | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| scribble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
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| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
| scruple | (verb) have doubts about | - |
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| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| scuffle | (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| scuttle | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
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| settle | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: locate |
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| (verb) form a community | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: root, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) establish or develop as a residence | - |
| (verb) make final; put the last touches on; put into final form | Synonyms: finalise, finalize, nail down |
| (verb) become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet | - |
| (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: descend, fall |
| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, resolve |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: determine, square off, square up |
| (verb) end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement | - |
| (verb) come to terms | Synonyms: conciliate, make up, patch up, reconcile |
| (verb) accept despite lack of complete satisfaction | - |
| (verb) get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury | Synonyms: get back |
| (verb) fix firmly | Synonyms: ensconce |
| (verb) arrange or fix in the desired order | - |
| (verb) come to rest | - |
| (verb) settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground | Synonyms: settle down |
| (verb) cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) | - |
| (verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: subside |
| (verb) go under | Synonyms: go down, go under, sink |
| (verb) become clear by the sinking of particles | - |
| (verb) dispose of; make a financial settlement | - |
| shackle | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
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| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shamble | (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shuffle |
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| shingle | (verb) cover with shingles | - |
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| shuffle | (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| shuttle | (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
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| sidle | (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sashay |
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| (verb) move unobtrusively or furtively | - |
| single | (verb) hit a single | - |
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| sizzle | (verb) burn or sear with a sizzling sound | - |
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| (verb) make a sound like frying fat | - |
| (verb) seethe with deep anger or resentment | - |
| skedaddle | (verb) run away, as if in a panic | - |
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| skittle | (verb) play skittles | - |
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| smile | (verb) change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure | - |
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| (verb) express with a smile | - |
| smuggle | (verb) import or export without paying customs duties | - |
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| snaffle | (verb) fit or restrain with a snaffle | - |
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| (verb) get hold of or seize quickly and easily | Synonyms: grab, snap up |
| sniffle | (verb) inhale audibly through the nose | Synonyms: sniff |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle |
| snowmobile | (verb) ride a snowmobile | - |
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| snuffle | (verb) snuff up mucus through the nose | Synonyms: snivel |
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| (verb) cry or whine with snuffling | Synonyms: blub, blubber, sniffle, snivel |
| (verb) sniff or smell inquiringly | Synonyms: snuff |
| snuggle | (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nestle, nuzzle |
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| (verb) position comfortably | Synonyms: nestle |