| meander | (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
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| mentor | (verb) serve as a teacher or trusted counselor | - |
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| meter | (verb) measure with a meter | - |
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| (verb) stamp with a meter indicating the postage | - |
| minister | (verb) work as a minister | - |
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| (verb) attend to the wants and needs of others | - |
| minor | (verb) have as one's secondary field of study | - |
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| mirror | (verb) reflect or resemble | - |
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| (verb) reflect as if in a mirror | - |
| misdeliver | (verb) deliver to the wrong address | - |
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| misremember | (verb) remember incorrectly | - |
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| miter | (verb) bevel the edges of, to make a miter joint | - |
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| (verb) fit together in a miter joint | - |
| (verb) confer a miter on (a bishop) | - |
| molder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, moulder, rot |
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| monger | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, peddle, pitch, vend |
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| monitor | (verb) keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance | Synonyms: supervise |
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| (verb) check, track, or observe by means of a receiver | - |
| moor | (verb) secure with cables or ropes | - |
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| (verb) secure in or as if in a berth or dock | Synonyms: berth, tie up |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, wharf |
| mortar | (verb) plaster with mortar | - |
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| mother | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, sire |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, overprotect |
| motor | (verb) travel or be transported in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive |
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| moulder | (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, rot |
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| mountaineer | (verb) climb mountains for pleasure as a sport | - |
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| murder | (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: mangle, mutilate |
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| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| murmur | (verb) speak softly or indistinctly | - |
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| (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, mutter |
| muster | (verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc. | - |
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| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster up, rally, summon |
| mutter | (verb) make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath | Synonyms: croak, gnarl, grumble, murmur |
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| (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mussitate |
| natter | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| near | (verb) move towards | Synonyms: approach, come near, come on, draw close, draw near, go up |
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| neighbor | (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbour |
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| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbour |
| neighbour | (verb) be located near or adjacent to | Synonyms: neighbor |
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| (verb) live or be located as a neighbor | Synonyms: neighbor |
| neuter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay |
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| nicker | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, whicker, whinny |
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| number | (verb) place a limit on the number of | Synonyms: keep down |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate |
| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: list |
| (verb) give numbers to | - |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, come, total |
| (verb) put into a group | Synonyms: count |
| occur | (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, pass, pass off, take place |
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| (verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: come |
| (verb) to be found to exist | - |
| offer | (verb) put forward for consideration | - |
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| (verb) threaten to do something | - |
| (verb) ask (someone) to marry you | Synonyms: declare oneself, pop the question, propose |
| (verb) produce or introduce on the stage | - |
| (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer |
| (verb) propose a payment | Synonyms: bid, tender |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, provide, render, supply |
| (verb) make available for sale | - |
| (verb) offer verbally | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) make available; provide | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) agree freely | Synonyms: volunteer |
| (verb) mount or put up | Synonyms: provide, put up |
| (verb) present as an act of worship | Synonyms: offer up |
| officer | (verb) direct or command as an officer | - |
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| order | (verb) bring order to or into | - |
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| (verb) place in a certain order | - |
| (verb) assign a rank or rating to | Synonyms: grade, place, range, rank, rate |
| (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, put, set up |
| (verb) make a request for something | - |
| (verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, say, tell |
| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, prescribe |
| (verb) bring into conformity with rules or principles or usage; impose regulations | Synonyms: govern, regularise, regularize, regulate |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: consecrate, ordain, ordinate |
| outmaneuver | (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmanoeuvre, outsmart |
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| outnumber | (verb) be larger in number | - |
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| outroar | (verb) roar louder than | - |
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| outwear | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
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| (verb) last longer than others | - |
| overbear | (verb) contract the abdominal muscles during childbirth to ease delivery | Synonyms: bear down |
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| (verb) bear too much | - |
| (verb) overcome | - |
| overhear | (verb) hear, usually without the knowledge of the speakers | Synonyms: catch, take in |
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| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| overpower | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overmaster, overwhelm |
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| (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over, whelm |
| overwinter | (verb) spend the winter | Synonyms: winter |
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| oyster | (verb) gather oysters, dig oysters | - |
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| pair | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, mate |
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| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, mate, twin |
| (verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
| (verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: geminate |
| (verb) form a pair or pairs | Synonyms: couple, pair off, partner off |
| palaver | (verb) have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds | - |
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| (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, sweet-talk, wheedle |
| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| pamper | (verb) treat with excessive indulgence | Synonyms: baby, cocker, coddle, cosset, featherbed, indulge, mollycoddle, spoil |
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| pander | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pimp, procure |
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| (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: gratify, indulge |
| paper | (verb) cover with paper | - |
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| (verb) cover with wallpaper | Synonyms: wallpaper |
| par | (verb) make a score (on a hole) equal to par | - |
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| partner | (verb) provide with a partner | - |
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| (verb) act as a partner | - |
| patter | (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
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| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
| peer | (verb) look searchingly | - |
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| pepper | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pelt |
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| (verb) add pepper to | - |
| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| pilfer | (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
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| pioneer | (verb) open up and explore a new area | - |
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| (verb) open up an area or prepare a way | Synonyms: open up |
| (verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: initiate |
| plaster | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: poultice |
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| (verb) coat with plaster | Synonyms: daub |
| (verb) apply a heavy coat to | Synonyms: plaster over, stick on |
| (verb) apply a plaster cast to | - |
| (verb) affix conspicuously | - |
| (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: beplaster |
| plunder | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: despoil, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| (verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: sack |
| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: loot |
| pompadour | (verb) style women's hair in a pompadour | - |
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| ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| porter | (verb) carry luggage or supplies | - |
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| pother | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
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| (verb) make upset or troubled | - |
| potter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter around, putter, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: putter |
| pour | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pullulate, stream, swarm, teem |
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| (verb) flow in a spurt | - |
| (verb) cause to run | - |
| (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: decant, pour out |
| (verb) supply in large amounts or quantities | - |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| powder | (verb) apply powder to | - |
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| (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
| power | (verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
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| prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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| (verb) like better; value more highly | - |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| (verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
| premier | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| proctor | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: invigilate |
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| proffer | (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
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| profiteer | (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
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| prosper | (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: flourish, fly high, thrive |
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| pucker | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, knit, rumple |
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| (verb) draw together into folds or puckers | Synonyms: gather, tuck |
| (verb) become wrinkled or drawn together | Synonyms: ruck, ruck up |
| purr | (verb) indicate pleasure by purring; characteristic of cats | Synonyms: make vibrant sounds |
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| (verb) make a soft swishing sound | Synonyms: birr, whir, whirr, whiz, whizz |
| putter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter, potter around, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: potter |
| quarter | (verb) divide by four; divide into quarters | - |
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| (verb) divide into quarters | - |
| (verb) pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him | Synonyms: draw, draw and quarter |
| (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: billet, canton |
| quaver | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: trill, warble |
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| (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: waver |
| queer | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, scupper |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| quiver | (verb) shake with fast, tremulous movements | Synonyms: palpitate, quake |
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| (verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: beat, pulsate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, waver |
| racketeer | (verb) carry on illegal business activities involving crime | - |
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| rafter | (verb) provide (a ceiling) with rafters | - |
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| razor | (verb) shave with a razor | - |
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| reappear | (verb) appear again | Synonyms: re-emerge |
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| rear | (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: erect, put up, raise, set up |
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| (verb) stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds | Synonyms: rise up |
| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: erect |
| (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, parent, raise |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: lift, rise |
| reconnoiter | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoitre, scout |
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| reconquer | (verb) conquer anew | - |
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| reconsider | (verb) consider again; give new consideration to; usually with a view to changing | - |
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| (verb) consider again (a bill) that had been voted upon before, with a view to altering it | - |
| recover | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: convalesce, recuperate |
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| (verb) regain a former condition after a financial loss | Synonyms: go back, recuperate |
| (verb) get or find back; recover the use of | Synonyms: find, regain, retrieve |
| (verb) regain or make up for | Synonyms: recoup, recuperate |
| (verb) reuse (materials from waste products) | Synonyms: reclaim |
| (verb) cover anew | - |
| recur | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) return in thought or speech to something | Synonyms: go back |
| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, resort |
| rediscover | (verb) discover again | - |
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| refer | (verb) think of, regard, or classify under a subsuming principle or with a general group or in relation to another | - |
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| (verb) have as a meaning | Synonyms: denote |
| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: advert, bring up, cite, mention, name |
| (verb) use a name to designate | - |
| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: consult, look up |
| (verb) send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision | - |
| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, pertain, relate, touch, touch on |
| register | (verb) enter into someone's consciousness | - |
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| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, show |
| (verb) record in a public office or in a court of law | Synonyms: file |
| (verb) send by registered mail | - |
| (verb) manipulate the registers of an organ | - |
| (verb) be aware of | Synonyms: record |
| (verb) show in one's face | - |
| (verb) record in writing; enter into a book of names or events or transactions | - |
| (verb) enroll to vote | - |
| (verb) have one's name listed as a candidate for several parties | Synonyms: cross-file |
| rehear | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: retry |
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| remainder | (verb) sell cheaply as remainders | - |
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| remember | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, retrieve, think |
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| (verb) keep in mind for attention or consideration | Synonyms: think of |
| (verb) recapture the past; indulge in memories | Synonyms: think back |
| (verb) exercise, or have the power of, memory | - |
| (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: commemorate |
| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: commend |
| (verb) mention favorably, as in prayer | - |
| (verb) show appreciation to | - |
| render | (verb) cause to become | - |
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| (verb) melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities | Synonyms: try |
| (verb) bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) pass down | Synonyms: deliver, return |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, translate |
| (verb) coat with plastic or cement | - |
| (verb) give or supply | Synonyms: generate, give, return, yield |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, show |
| (verb) give back | Synonyms: return |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: furnish, offer, provide, supply |
| (verb) to surrender someone or something to another | Synonyms: deliver, fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, turn in |
| reorder | (verb) assign a new order to | - |
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| (verb) make a new request to be supplied with | - |
| repair | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, restore, touch on |
| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, remedy |
| (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: resort |
| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, indemnify, recompense |