| abort | (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
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| (verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
| (verb) terminate before completion | - |
| advert | (verb) make a more or less disguised reference to | Synonyms: allude, touch |
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| (verb) make reference to | Synonyms: bring up, cite, mention, name, refer |
| (verb) give heed (to) | Synonyms: attend, give ear, hang, pay heed |
| airt | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: redirect |
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| alert | (verb) warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness | Synonyms: alarm |
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| animadvert | (verb) express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation | Synonyms: opine, sound off, speak out, speak up |
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| (verb) express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark | - |
| assert | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: insist |
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| (verb) to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true | Synonyms: affirm, aver, avow, swan, swear, verify |
| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: asseverate, maintain |
| (verb) insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized | Synonyms: put forward |
| assort | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: class, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, consort |
| avert | (verb) turn away or aside | Synonyms: turn away |
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| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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| cart | (verb) draw slowly or heavily | Synonyms: drag, hale, haul |
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| (verb) transport something in a cart | - |
| cavort | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| chart | (verb) plan in detail | - |
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| (verb) make a chart of | - |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: graph |
| comfort | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
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| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
| compart | (verb) lay out in parts according to a plan | - |
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| comport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: behave |
| concert | (verb) settle by agreement | - |
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| (verb) contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement | - |
| consort | (verb) keep company | Synonyms: run |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, assort |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| contort | (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: deform, distort, wring |
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| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| convert | (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
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| (verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
| (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
| (verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
| (verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
| (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
| (verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
| court | (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: romance, solicit, woo |
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| (verb) seek someone's favor | Synonyms: woo |
| (verb) engage in social activities leading to marriage | - |
| dart | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dash, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
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| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: fleet, flit, flutter |
| (verb) move with sudden speed | - |
| depart | (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: quit, take leave |
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| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: part, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: digress, sidetrack, straggle |
| (verb) move away from a place into another direction | Synonyms: go, go away |
| (verb) remove oneself from an association with or participation in | Synonyms: leave, pull up stakes |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: deviate, diverge, vary |
| deport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, do |
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| (verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: exile, expatriate |
| (verb) hand over to the authorities of another country | Synonyms: deliver, extradite |
| desert | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake |
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| (verb) leave behind | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: defect |
| disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, untune, upset |
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| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: confuse, flurry, put off |
| disport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, divert |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| escort | (verb) accompany as an escort | - |
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| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: see |
| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| exert | (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: maintain, wield |
| (verb) make a great effort at a mental or physical task | - |
| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| export | (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
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| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| exsert | (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
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| extort | (verb) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | Synonyms: wring from |
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| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) obtain through intimidation | - |
| fart | (verb) expel intestinal gases through the anus | Synonyms: break wind |
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| flirt | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, play, toy |
| fort | (verb) station (troops) in a fort | - |
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| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fortify |
| (verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense | Synonyms: fort up |
| hurt | (verb) give trouble or pain to | - |
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| (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: injure |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, injure, offend, spite, wound |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: anguish, pain |
| (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: ache, smart |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, suffer |
| impart | (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, transmit |
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| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, leave, pass on |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, lend |
| import | (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: spell |
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| (verb) bring in from abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | - |
| insert | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) insert casually | Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: tuck |
| introvert | (verb) turn inside | - |
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| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| invert | (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: reverse, turn back |
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| (verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition) | - |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: reverse |
| jumpstart | (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| outsmart | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outwit, overreach |
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| (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre |
| overexert | (verb) exert (oneself) excessively and go beyond one's strength | - |
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| part | (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: divide, separate |
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| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, divide, separate |
| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: depart, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: separate, split |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, separate, split, split up |
| pervert | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, misuse |
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| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| port | (verb) modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | - |
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| (verb) drink port | - |
| (verb) carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons | - |
| (verb) carry, bear, convey, or bring | - |
| (verb) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) put or turn on the left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) land at or reach a port | - |
| (verb) bring to port | - |
| purport | (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
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| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| reassert | (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: confirm |
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| reconvert | (verb) convert back | - |
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| report | (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, describe |
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| (verb) make known to the authorities | - |
| (verb) complain about; make a charge against | - |
| (verb) announce one's presence | - |
| (verb) announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding | - |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: cover |
| resort | (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: repair |
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| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, recur |
| restart | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, resume |
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| (verb) start an engine again, for example | Synonyms: re-start |
| retort | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, return, riposte |
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| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| shart | (verb) to intend to release flatulence but actually defecate | - |
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| shirt | (verb) put a shirt on | - |
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| short | (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
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| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| skirt | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep |
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| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, surround |
| (verb) pass around or about; move along the border | - |
| (verb) form the edge of | - |
| smart | (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
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| snort | (verb) make a snorting sound by exhaling hard | - |
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| (verb) indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose | - |
| (verb) inhale through the nose | Synonyms: take a hit |
| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: huff |
| sort | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort out |
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| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve |
| spirt | (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spurt |
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| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spout, spurt |
| sport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, feature |
| spurt | (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: squirt |
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| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spirt |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spout |
| squirt | (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: eject, force out, squeeze out |
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| (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: spurt |
| start | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, commence, lead off |
| (verb) play in the starting lineup | - |
| (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, originate |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: commence, embark on, start up |
| (verb) begin or set in motion | Synonyms: get going, go |
| (verb) get going or set in motion | Synonyms: start up |
| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: depart, part, set forth, set off, set out, start out, take off |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: jump, startle |
| (verb) begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: begin |
| (verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: begin |
| (verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: begin |
| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| support | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, sustain |
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| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, tolerate |
| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: subscribe |
| (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: defend, fend for |
| (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, sustain |
| (verb) play a subordinate role to (another performer) | - |
| (verb) support materially or financially | - |
| (verb) give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to | Synonyms: back up |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, underpin |
| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| thwart | (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil |
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| transport | (verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: carry |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish |
| (verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances | - |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, ship |