abound | (verb) be abundant or plentiful; exist in large quantities | - |
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(verb) be in a state of movement or action | Synonyms: bristle, burst |
abscond | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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amend | (verb) to make better | Synonyms: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate |
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(verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair |
(verb) make amendments to | - |
append | (verb) state or say further | Synonyms: add, supply |
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(verb) fix to; attach | Synonyms: hang on, tack, tack on, tag on |
(verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, affix, supplement |
apprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: arrest, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) anticipate with dread or anxiety | Synonyms: quail at |
ascend | (verb) slope upwards | - |
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(verb) travel up | Synonyms: go up |
(verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: come up, rise, uprise |
(verb) go along towards (a river's) source | - |
(verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: move up, rise |
(verb) appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils | Synonyms: climb up |
(verb) become king or queen | - |
(verb) go back in order of genealogical succession | - |
astound | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astonish |
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attend | (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: advert, give ear, hang, pay heed |
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(verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: assist, attend to, serve, wait on |
(verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: look, see, take care |
(verb) be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc. | Synonyms: go to |
(verb) to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result | - |
background | (verb) understate the importance or quality of | Synonyms: downplay, play down |
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backhand | (verb) hit a tennis ball backhand | - |
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band | (verb) bind or tie together, as with a band | - |
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(verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: ring |
befriend | (verb) become friends with | - |
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bend | (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: deform, flex, turn, twist |
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(verb) bend a joint | Synonyms: flex |
(verb) form a curve | Synonyms: flex |
(verb) change direction | - |
(verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: deflect, turn away |
(verb) bend one's back forward from the waist on down | Synonyms: bow, crouch, stoop |
bind | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: constipate |
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(verb) form a chemical bond with | - |
(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: hold, obligate, oblige |
(verb) make fast; tie or secure, with or as if with a rope | - |
(verb) fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord | Synonyms: tie |
(verb) provide with a binding | - |
(verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bond, hold fast, stick, stick to |
(verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: tie down, tie up, truss |
(verb) wrap around with something so as to cover or enclose | Synonyms: bandage |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bond, tie |
blend | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) combine into one | Synonyms: immingle, intermingle, intermix |
(verb) blend or harmonize | Synonyms: blend in, go |
blind | (verb) make dim by comparison or conceal | Synonyms: dim |
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(verb) make blind by putting the eyes out | - |
(verb) render unable to see | - |
bond | (verb) stick to firmly | Synonyms: adhere, bind, hold fast, stick, stick to |
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(verb) bring together in a common cause or emotion | Synonyms: draw together |
(verb) issue bonds on | - |
(verb) create social or emotional ties | Synonyms: attach, bind, tie |
bound | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel |
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(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
(verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: jump, leap, spring |
(verb) form the boundary of; be contiguous to | Synonyms: border |
brand | (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: post |
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(verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brandmark, trademark |
(verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatize |
(verb) burn with a branding iron to indicate ownership; of animals | - |
command | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
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(verb) be in command of | - |
(verb) demand as one's due | - |
(verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
(verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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(verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
(verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
(verb) give to in charge | - |
(verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
compound | (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
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(verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
(verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
(verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
(verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
comprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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(verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: perceive |
(verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: cover, embrace, encompass |
condescend | (verb) treat condescendingly | Synonyms: patronise, patronize |
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(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: deign, descend |
(verb) behave in a patronizing and condescending manner | - |
(verb) debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way | Synonyms: lower oneself, stoop |
confound | (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confuse |
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(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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(verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
(verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
(verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
(verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
(verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
correspond | (verb) exchange messages | - |
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(verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
(verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: represent, stand for |
(verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: equate |
countermand | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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defend | (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: fend for, support |
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(verb) state or assert | Synonyms: maintain |
(verb) be on the defensive; act against an attack | - |
(verb) protect against a challenge or attack | Synonyms: guard, hold |
(verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: champion |
(verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: fight, fight back, fight down, oppose |
(verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: represent |
demand | (verb) request urgently and forcefully | - |
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(verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: exact |
(verb) summon to court | - |
(verb) ask to be informed of | - |
(verb) lay legal claim to | - |
(verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take |
depend | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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(verb) be contingent upon (something that is elided) | - |
descend | (verb) come as if by falling | Synonyms: fall, settle |
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(verb) move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way | Synonyms: come down, fall, go down |
(verb) do something that one considers to be below one's dignity | Synonyms: condescend, deign |
(verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: come, derive |
despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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disband | (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: dissolve |
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(verb) cause to break up or cease to function | - |
distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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(verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
(verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
dumbfound | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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end | (verb) bring to an end or halt | Synonyms: terminate |
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(verb) put an end to | - |
(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, finish, stop, terminate |
(verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of | Synonyms: terminate |
expand | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, flourish, thrive |
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(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: amplify, blow up, inflate |
(verb) become larger in size or volume or quantity | - |
(verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: extend |
(verb) make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity | - |
(verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
(verb) extend in one or more directions | Synonyms: spread out |
expend | (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
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(verb) pay out | Synonyms: drop, spend |
expound | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, flesh out, lucubrate |
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(verb) state | Synonyms: exposit, set forth |
extend | (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: stretch |
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(verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: exsert, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
(verb) extend in scope or range or area | Synonyms: broaden, widen |
(verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, prolong, protract |
(verb) continue or extend | Synonyms: carry |
(verb) expand the influence of | Synonyms: expand |
(verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: stretch |
(verb) prolong the time allowed for payment of | - |
(verb) use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity | Synonyms: strain |
(verb) open or straighten out; unbend | - |
(verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: stretch, stretch out, unfold |
(verb) cause to move at full gallop | Synonyms: gallop |
(verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: offer |
(verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: offer |
(verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: continue, cover |
(verb) reach outward in space | Synonyms: poke out, reach out |
(verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: go, lead, pass, run |
fend | (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: resist, stand |
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(verb) try to manage without help | - |
find | (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: get, incur, obtain, receive |
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(verb) accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation | Synonyms: find oneself |
(verb) come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds | Synonyms: feel |
(verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out |
(verb) decide on and make a declaration about | Synonyms: rule |
(verb) make a discovery, make a new finding | Synonyms: discover |
(verb) succeed in reaching; arrive at | - |
(verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: see, witness |
(verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: detect, discover, notice, observe |
(verb) perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place | - |
(verb) come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost | Synonyms: regain |
(verb) get something or somebody for a specific purpose | Synonyms: come up, get hold, line up |
(verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, chance, encounter, happen |
(verb) obtain through effort or management | - |
(verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: recover, regain, retrieve |
forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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forfend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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found | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
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(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
fund | (verb) furnish money for | - |
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(verb) place or store up in a fund for accumulation | - |
(verb) convert (short-term floating debt) into long-term debt that bears fixed interest and is represented by bonds | - |
(verb) accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability | - |
(verb) invest money in government securities | - |
(verb) provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest | - |
garland | (verb) adorn with bands of flowers or leaves | - |
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grandstand | (verb) perform ostentatiously in order to impress the audience and with an eye to the applause | - |
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grind | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, mash |
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(verb) make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together | Synonyms: grate |
(verb) press or grind with a crushing noise | Synonyms: cranch, craunch, crunch |
(verb) shape or form by grinding | - |
(verb) created by grinding | - |
(verb) dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced | - |
(verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail |
ground | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, found |
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(verb) instruct someone in the fundamentals of a subject | - |
(verb) place or put on the ground | - |
(verb) confine or restrict to the ground | - |
(verb) connect to a ground | - |
(verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: prime, undercoat |
(verb) fix firmly and stably | Synonyms: anchor |
(verb) (baseball) a hit that travels along the playing field. | - |
(verb) throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage | - |
(verb) hit or reach the ground | Synonyms: run aground |
(verb) bring to the ground | Synonyms: run aground, strand |
hand | (verb) guide or conduct or usher somewhere | - |
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(verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, pass, pass on, reach, turn over |
hound | (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hunt, trace |
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husband | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, economize |
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hyperextend | (verb) extend a joint beyond its normal range | - |
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impend | (verb) be imminent or about to happen | - |
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impound | (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: pound |
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(verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, seize, sequester |
intend | (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: mean, think |
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(verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, destine, specify |
(verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: mean |
(verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: mean, signify, stand for |
interdepend | (verb) be connected | Synonyms: hang together |
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land | (verb) bring into a different state | Synonyms: bring |
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(verb) reach or come to rest | Synonyms: set down |
(verb) cause to come to the ground | Synonyms: bring down, put down |
(verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: set ashore, shore |
(verb) bring ashore | - |
(verb) shoot at and force to come down | Synonyms: down, shoot down |
(verb) deliver (a blow) | - |
lend | (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: loan |
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(verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart |
(verb) have certain characteristics of qualities for something; be open or vulnerable to | - |
mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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mend | (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, repair, restore, touch on |
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(verb) heal or recover | Synonyms: heal |
mind | (verb) keep in mind | Synonyms: bear in mind |
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(verb) be concerned with or about something or somebody | - |
(verb) be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to | Synonyms: beware |
(verb) be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by | - |
(verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, listen |
(verb) be in charge of or deal with | Synonyms: take care |
misapprehend | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand |
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misspend | (verb) spend (money or other resources) unwisely | - |
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(verb) spend time badly or unwisely | - |
misunderstand | (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret |
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mound | (verb) form into a rounded elevation | - |
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obtund | (verb) reduce the edge or violence of | - |
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offend | (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, hurt, injure, spite, wound |
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(verb) cause to feel resentment or indignation | Synonyms: pique |
(verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, outrage, scandalise, scandalize, shock |
(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, transgress, violate |
overextend | (verb) strain excessively | Synonyms: overstrain |
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overspend | (verb) spend at a high rate | - |
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(verb) spend more than available of (a budget) | - |
portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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pound | (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
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(verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
(verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
(verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
(verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
(verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
(verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
(verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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pretend | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
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(verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
(verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
(verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
(verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
(verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
propound | (verb) put forward, as of an idea | - |
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rebind | (verb) provide with a new binding | - |
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rebound | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rally |
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(verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
recommend | (verb) make attractive or acceptable | - |
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(verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: commend |
(verb) push for something | Synonyms: advocate, urge |
redound | (verb) contribute | - |
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(verb) have an effect for good or ill | - |
(verb) return or recoil | - |
refund | (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, repay, return |
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remand | (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remit, send back |
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(verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars |
remind | (verb) put in the mind of someone | - |
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(verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, prompt |
rend | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rip, rive |
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reprehend | (verb) to rebuke or reprimand | - |
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reprimand | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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resound | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, noise |
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(verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, reverberate, ring |
resplend | (verb) be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly | - |
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respond | (verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: react |
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(verb) respond favorably or as hoped | - |
(verb) react verbally | Synonyms: answer, reply |
resuspend | (verb) put back into suspension | - |
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rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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(verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
(verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
(verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
(verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
(verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
(verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
sand | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sandpaper |
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scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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second | (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse |
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(verb) transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment | - |
send | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, post |
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(verb) transfer | Synonyms: get off, send off |
(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, transmit |
(verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, post, station |
(verb) to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: send out |
(verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: ship, transport |
(verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: direct |
(verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize |