| abash | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: embarrass |
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| abolish | (verb) do away with | Synonyms: get rid of |
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| accomplish | (verb) put in effect | Synonyms: action, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill |
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| (verb) to gain with effort | Synonyms: achieve, attain, reach |
| admonish | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: reproof, reprove |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: caution, monish |
| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: discourage, monish, warn |
| airbrush | (verb) paint with an airbrush | - |
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| ambush | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) hunt (quarry) by stalking and ambushing | Synonyms: still-hunt |
| anguish | (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
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| (verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
| ash | (verb) convert into ashes | - |
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| astonish | (verb) affect with wonder | Synonyms: amaze, astound |
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| backlash | (verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect | Synonyms: backfire, recoil |
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| banish | (verb) drive away | - |
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| (verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: bar, relegate |
| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize, shun |
| (verb) ban from a place of residence, as for punishment | Synonyms: ban |
| bash | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bonk, bop, sock, whap, whop |
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| blackwash | (verb) color with blackwash | - |
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| (verb) bring (information) out of concealment | - |
| blandish | (verb) praise somewhat dishonestly | Synonyms: flatter |
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| blemish | (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective | Synonyms: flaw |
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| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: spot |
| (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of | Synonyms: deface, disfigure |
| blush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: crimson, flush, redden |
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| (verb) become rosy or reddish | - |
| brainwash | (verb) submit to brainwashing; indoctrinate forcibly | - |
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| (verb) persuade completely, often through coercion | - |
| brandish | (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: flourish, wave |
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| (verb) exhibit aggressively | - |
| brush | (verb) remove with or as if with a brush | - |
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| (verb) touch lightly and briefly | - |
| (verb) rub with a brush, or as if with a brush | - |
| (verb) clean with a brush | - |
| (verb) cover by brushing | - |
| (verb) sweep across or over | Synonyms: sweep |
| burnish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, furbish |
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| bush | (verb) provide with a bushing | - |
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| cash | (verb) exchange for cash | Synonyms: cash in |
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| catfish | (verb) To deceive someone by professing romantic feelings but actually using a false identity | - |
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| cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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| clash | (verb) disagree violently | - |
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| (verb) crash together with violent impact | Synonyms: collide |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: collide, jar |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| cosh | (verb) hit with a cosh, usually on the head | - |
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| crash | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: doss, doss down |
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| (verb) stop operating | Synonyms: go down |
| (verb) undergo a sudden and severe downturn | - |
| (verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact | Synonyms: ram |
| (verb) break violently or noisily; smash | Synonyms: break apart, break up |
| (verb) cause to crash | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: dash |
| (verb) enter uninvited; informal | Synonyms: barge in, gate-crash |
| (verb) move with, or as if with, a crashing noise | - |
| (verb) fall or come down violently | - |
| (verb) move violently as through a barrier | - |
| (verb) make a sudden loud sound | - |
| (verb) occupy, usually uninvited | - |
| crawfish | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, retreat, withdraw |
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| crush | (verb) break into small pieces | - |
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| (verb) become injured, broken, or distorted by pressure | - |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, shell, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) make ineffective | Synonyms: break down |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: mash, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: jam |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: smash |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: oppress, suppress |
| dash | (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: smash |
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| (verb) add an enlivening or altering element to | - |
| (verb) hurl or thrust violently | Synonyms: crash |
| (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, flash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) destroy or break | - |
| demolish | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | Synonyms: pulverise, pulverize |
| (verb) ruin or destroy | - |
| diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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| (verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
| disestablish | (verb) deprive (an established church) of its status | - |
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| dish | (verb) make concave; shape like a dish | - |
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| (verb) provide (usually but not necessarily food) | Synonyms: dish out, dish up, serve, serve up |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| enmesh | (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: ensnarl, mesh |
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| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
| (verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
| famish | (verb) be hungry; go without food | Synonyms: hunger, starve |
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| (verb) die of food deprivation | Synonyms: starve |
| (verb) deprive of food | Synonyms: starve |
| finish | (verb) finally be or do something | Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up |
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| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: complete |
| (verb) cause to finish a relationship with somebody | - |
| (verb) finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table | Synonyms: eat up, polish off |
| (verb) provide with a finish | - |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate |
| fish | (verb) catch or try to catch fish or shellfish | - |
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| (verb) seek indirectly | Synonyms: angle |
| flash | (verb) appear briefly | - |
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| (verb) emit a brief burst of light | - |
| (verb) make known or cause to appear with great speed | - |
| (verb) protect by covering with a thin sheet of metal | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, scoot, scud, shoot |
| (verb) gleam or glow intermittently | Synonyms: blink, twinkle, wink, winkle |
| (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flaunt, ostentate, show off, swank |
| (verb) expose or show briefly | - |
| flesh | (verb) remove adhering flesh from (hides) when preparing leather manufacture | - |
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| flourish | (verb) grow vigorously | Synonyms: boom, expand, thrive |
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| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, wave |
| (verb) make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance | Synonyms: fly high, prosper, thrive |
| flush | (verb) turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame | Synonyms: blush, crimson, redden |
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| (verb) cause to flow through something | - |
| (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: purge, scour |
| (verb) irrigate with water from a sluice | Synonyms: sluice |
| (verb) cause to flow or flood with or as if with water | - |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even, even out, level |
| (verb) glow or cause to glow with warm color or light | - |
| flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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| furbish | (verb) polish and make shiny | Synonyms: buff, burnish |
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| furnish | (verb) give something useful or necessary to | Synonyms: offer, provide, render, supply |
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| (verb) provide or equip with furniture | - |
| garnish | (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, trim |
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| (verb) take a debtor's wages on legal orders, such as for child support | Synonyms: garnishee |
| gash | (verb) cut open | Synonyms: slash |
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| gnash | (verb) grind together, of teeth | - |
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| gush | (verb) praise enthusiastically | Synonyms: rave |
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| (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: jet |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt |
| handwash | (verb) wash or launder by hand instead of with a machine | Synonyms: hand-wash |
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| hash | (verb) chop up | - |
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| hush | (verb) become quiet or still; fall silent | - |
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| (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush up, quieten, shut up, silence, still |
| (verb) run water over the ground to erode (soil), revealing the underlying strata and valuable minerals | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: wash |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down, quieten |
| impoverish | (verb) take away | Synonyms: deprive |
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| (verb) make poor | - |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| kibosh | (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, stop |
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| languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
| (verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
| lash | (verb) strike as if by whipping | Synonyms: whip |
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| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) bind with a rope, chain, or cord | - |
| (verb) lash or flick about sharply | - |
| lavish | (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: shower |
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| leash | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: rope |
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| malnourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: undernourish |
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| mash | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| mesh | (verb) coordinate in such a way that all parts work together effectively | Synonyms: interlock |
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| (verb) entangle or catch in (or as if in) a mesh | Synonyms: enmesh, ensnarl |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, lock, operate |
| (verb) work together in harmony | - |
| monish | (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, warn |
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| (verb) warn strongly; put on guard | Synonyms: admonish, caution |
| mosh | (verb) dance the slam dance | Synonyms: slam, slam dance, thrash |
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| mush | (verb) travel with a dogsled | Synonyms: dogsled |
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| (verb) drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) | - |
| nosh | (verb) eat a snack; eat lightly | Synonyms: snack |
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| nourish | (verb) provide with nourishment | Synonyms: nurture, sustain |
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| (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nutrify |
| perish | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
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| plash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: spatter, splash, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) interlace the shoots of | Synonyms: pleach |
| polish | (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off |
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| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen |
| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| publish | (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, put out, release |
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| (verb) have (one's work) issued for publication | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: print |
| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| push | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, promote |
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| (verb) press, drive, or impel (someone) to action or completion of an action | Synonyms: bear on |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: press |
| (verb) move with force | Synonyms: force |
| (verb) approach a certain age or speed | Synonyms: crowd |
| (verb) press against forcefully without moving | - |
| (verb) move strenuously and with effort | - |
| (verb) sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs) | - |
| (verb) strive and make an effort to reach a goal | Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, tug |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, press |
| quash | (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, reduce, repress, subdue, subjugate |
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| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, nullify, void |
| ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
| reestablish | (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reinstate, restore |
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| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refresh | (verb) make fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, refreshen |
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| (verb) become or make oneself fresh again | Synonyms: freshen, freshen up, refreshen |
| (verb) make (to feel) fresh | Synonyms: freshen |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, review |
| refurbish | (verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, renovate |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| rehash | (verb) go back over | Synonyms: hash over, retrograde |
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| (verb) present or use over, with no or few changes | - |
| relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
| relish | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, savor, savour |
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| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| republish | (verb) revive (a cancelled will or a libel) | - |
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| (verb) publish again | - |
| rubbish | (verb) attack strongly | - |
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| rush | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hasten, hurry, look sharp |
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| (verb) urge to an unnatural speed | Synonyms: hurry |
| (verb) attack suddenly | - |
| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: hasten, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) run with the ball, in football | - |
| (verb) cause to move fast or to rush or race | Synonyms: race |
| shush | (verb) silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | - |
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| skirmish | (verb) engage in a skirmish | - |
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| slash | (verb) cut drastically | - |
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| (verb) cut open | Synonyms: gash |
| (verb) cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete | Synonyms: cut down |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, strap, trounce, welt, whip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| slosh | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh around, slush, slush around |
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| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, splash, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slush, splash, splosh |
| slush | (verb) spill or splash copiously or clumsily | Synonyms: slosh, slosh around, slush around |
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| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, splash, splosh |
| smash | (verb) break into pieces, as by striking or knocking over | Synonyms: dash |
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| (verb) break suddenly into pieces, as from a violent blow | - |
| (verb) overthrow or destroy (something considered evil or harmful) | - |
| (verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: blast, boom, nail |
| (verb) collide or strike violently and suddenly | - |
| (verb) hit (a tennis ball) in a powerful overhead stroke | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy as if by violence | Synonyms: bang up, smash up |
| (verb) humiliate or depress completely | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) hit violently | - |
| (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: bankrupt, break, ruin |
| splash | (verb) dash a liquid upon or against | Synonyms: plash, spatter, splatter, splosh, swash |
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| (verb) cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force | Synonyms: splosh, sprinkle |
| (verb) strike and dash about in a liquid | - |
| (verb) soil or stain with a splashed liquid | - |
| (verb) mark or overlay with patches of contrasting color or texture; cause to appear splashed or spattered | - |
| (verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splosh, squelch, squish |
| (verb) make a splashing sound | Synonyms: slosh, slush, splosh |