| access | (verb) reach or gain access to | Synonyms: get at |
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| (verb) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer | - |
| address | (verb) adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting | - |
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| (verb) speak to | Synonyms: turn to |
| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: accost, come up to |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: cover, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) direct a question at someone | - |
| (verb) address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question | - |
| (verb) access or locate by address | - |
| (verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: call |
| aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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| amass | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| assess | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) estimate the value of (property) for taxation | - |
| (verb) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) | Synonyms: tax |
| (verb) charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine | - |
| backcross | (verb) mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents | - |
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| bless | (verb) give a benediction to | - |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: consecrate, hallow, sanctify |
| (verb) make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate | Synonyms: sign |
| (verb) confer prosperity or happiness on | - |
| boss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: emboss, stamp |
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| buss | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: kiss, osculate, snog |
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| buttress | (verb) make stronger or defensible | - |
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| (verb) reinforce with a buttress | - |
| bypass | (verb) avoid something unpleasant or laborious | Synonyms: get around, go around, short-circuit |
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| canvass | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, examine, study |
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| (verb) solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign | - |
| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: poll |
| caress | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
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| class | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, classify, separate, sort, sort out |
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| compass | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: circumnavigate |
| (verb) bring about; accomplish | - |
| compress | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compact, pack together |
| concuss | (verb) injure the brain; sustain a concussion | - |
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| (verb) shake violently | - |
| confess | (verb) confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure | Synonyms: fink, squeal |
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| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, profess |
| (verb) confess to God in the presence of a priest, as in the Catholic faith | - |
| crisscross | (verb) mark with a pattern of crossing lines | - |
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| (verb) mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines | - |
| (verb) cross in a pattern, often random | - |
| cross | (verb) breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties | Synonyms: crossbreed, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed |
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| (verb) trace a line through or across | - |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse |
| (verb) meet and pass | - |
| (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: intersect |
| (verb) fold so as to resemble a cross | - |
| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: span, sweep, traverse |
| cuss | (verb) utter obscenities or profanities | Synonyms: blaspheme, curse, imprecate, swear |
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| decompress | (verb) become less tense, rest, or take one's ease | Synonyms: loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind |
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| (verb) decrease the pressure of | Synonyms: depressurise, depressurize |
| (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: uncompress |
| degauss | (verb) make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of) | Synonyms: demagnetise, demagnetize |
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| depress | (verb) lessen the activity or force of | - |
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| (verb) press down | Synonyms: press down |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: lower |
| (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, dismay, dispirit, get down |
| (verb) lower (prices or markets) | - |
| destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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| digress | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: divagate, stray, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct or straight course | Synonyms: depart, sidetrack, straggle |
| discuss | (verb) speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion | Synonyms: hash out, talk over |
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| (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing | Synonyms: discourse, talk about |
| disembarrass | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: free, rid |
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| dismiss | (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dissolve |
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| (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, disregard, ignore, push aside |
| (verb) end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave | Synonyms: usher out |
| (verb) cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration | Synonyms: throw out |
| (verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate |
| (verb) stop associating with | Synonyms: drop, send away, send packing |
| dispossess | (verb) deprive of the possession of real estate | - |
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| diss | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, insult |
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| distress | (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| doss | (verb) sleep in a convenient place | Synonyms: crash, doss down |
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| dress | (verb) put on clothes | Synonyms: get dressed |
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| (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog |
| (verb) apply a bandage or medication to | - |
| (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, set |
| (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: plume, preen, primp |
| (verb) give a neat appearance to | Synonyms: curry, groom |
| (verb) dress in a certain manner | Synonyms: dress up |
| (verb) kill and prepare for market or consumption | Synonyms: dress out |
| (verb) convert into leather | - |
| (verb) put a dressing on | - |
| (verb) put a finish on | - |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, lop, prune, snip, trim |
| (verb) provide with decoration | Synonyms: decorate |
| (verb) cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width | - |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: garnish, trim |
| (verb) arrange in ranks | Synonyms: line up |
| egress | (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
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| embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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| encompass | (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, embrace |
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| engross | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, occupy |
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| (verb) devote (oneself) fully to | Synonyms: absorb, engulf, immerse, plunge, soak up, steep |
| express | (verb) articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise | Synonyms: give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, show |
| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, convey |
| (verb) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. | Synonyms: state |
| (verb) send by rapid transport or special messenger service | - |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: extract, press out |
| (verb) manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait) | - |
| eyewitness | (verb) be present at an event and see it with one's own eyes | - |
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| floss | (verb) use dental floss to clean | - |
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| fress | (verb) eat a lot and without restraint | Synonyms: gluttonise, gluttonize |
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| fuss | (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fret, niggle |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: mother, overprotect |
| glass | (verb) become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance | Synonyms: glass over, glaze, glaze over |
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| (verb) put in a glass container | - |
| (verb) enclose with glass | Synonyms: glass in |
| (verb) scan (game in the forest) with binoculars | - |
| (verb) furnish with glass | Synonyms: glaze |
| gloss | (verb) provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase | - |
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| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, comment |
| (verb) give a deceptive explanation or excuse for | Synonyms: color, colour |
| (verb) give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing | - |
| grass | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, rat, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) shoot down, of birds | - |
| (verb) feed with grass | - |
| (verb) cover with grass | Synonyms: grass over |
| (verb) spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach | - |
| gross | (verb) earn before taxes, expenses, etc. | - |
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| guess | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: imagine, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, judge |
| (verb) guess correctly; solve by guessing | Synonyms: infer |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: hazard, pretend, venture |
| harass | (verb) exhaust by attacking repeatedly | - |
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| (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
| harness | (verb) keep in check | Synonyms: rein, rule |
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| (verb) exploit the power of | - |
| (verb) put a harness | Synonyms: tackle |
| (verb) control and direct with or as if by reins | Synonyms: draw rein, rein, rein in |
| hiss | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
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| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: sibilate, siss, sizz |
| (verb) show displeasure, as after a performance or speech | Synonyms: boo |
| (verb) move with a whooshing sound | Synonyms: whoosh |
| impress | (verb) dye (fabric) before it is spun | Synonyms: yarn-dye |
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| (verb) produce or try to produce a vivid impression of | Synonyms: ingrain, instill |
| (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: imprint |
| (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: shanghai |
| (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: print |
| (verb) impress positively | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, move, strike |
| kiss | (verb) touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc. | Synonyms: buss, osculate, snog |
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| (verb) touch lightly or gently | - |
| mass | (verb) join together into a mass or collect or form a mass | - |
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| mess | (verb) make a mess of or create disorder in | Synonyms: mess up |
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| (verb) eat in a mess hall | - |
| misaddress | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misdirect |
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| miss | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: escape |
| (verb) fail to reach | - |
| (verb) feel or suffer from the lack of | - |
| (verb) fail to reach or get to | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) be without | Synonyms: lack |
| (verb) fail to attend an event or activity | - |
| (verb) be absent | - |
| muss | (verb) make messy or untidy | Synonyms: tussle |
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| obsess | (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, haunt |
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| (verb) be preoccupied with something | - |
| oppress | (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, suppress |
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| (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: persecute |
| outclass | (verb) cause to appear in a lower class | - |
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| outguess | (verb) attempt to anticipate or predict | Synonyms: second-guess |
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| overdress | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, prink, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress too warmly | Synonyms: overclothe |
| overstress | (verb) place special or excessive emphasis on | Synonyms: overemphasise, overemphasize |
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| pass | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, excrete |
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| (verb) come to pass | Synonyms: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass off, take place |
| (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, fleet, pass off |
| (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 away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, authorize, clear |
| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: communicate, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) pass over, across, or through | Synonyms: draw, guide, run |
| (verb) go across or through | - |
| (verb) travel past | Synonyms: overhaul, overtake |
| (verb) pass into a specified state or condition; sink into | Synonyms: lapse, sink |
| (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: elapse, glide by, go along, go by, lapse, slide by, slip away, slip by |
| (verb) cause to pass | Synonyms: make pass |
| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass by, surpass, travel by |
| (verb) place into the hands or custody of | Synonyms: give, hand, pass on, reach, turn over |
| (verb) throw (a ball) to another player | - |
| (verb) transfer to another; of rights or property | - |
| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: devolve, fall, return |
| (verb) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation | Synonyms: legislate |
| (verb) go unchallenged; be approved | Synonyms: clear |
| (verb) accept or judge as acceptable | - |
| (verb) go successfully through a test or a selection process | Synonyms: make it |
| (verb) allow to go without comment or censure | - |
| (verb) use up a period of time in a specific way | Synonyms: spend |
| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, top, transcend |
| (verb) stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point | Synonyms: extend, go, lead, run |
| percuss | (verb) strike or tap firmly | - |
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| piss | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| possess | (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, own |
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| (verb) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill | - |
| (verb) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas | - |
| precess | (verb) move in a gyrating fashion | - |
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| premiss | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |
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| prepossess | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prejudice |
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| (verb) cause to be preoccupied | - |
| (verb) make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand | - |
| (verb) possess beforehand | - |
| press | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat |
| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: weight-lift, weightlift |
| (verb) exert pressure or force to or upon | - |
| (verb) place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze |
| (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron, iron out |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) press from a plastic | Synonyms: press out |
| (verb) create by pressing | - |
| (verb) crowd closely | - |
| (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, push |
| (verb) be urgent | - |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: weigh |
| process | (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: treat |
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| (verb) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information | - |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: serve, swear out |
| (verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: work, work on |
| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, sue |
| (verb) deal with in a routine way | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: march |
| profess | (verb) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | - |
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| (verb) take vows, as in religious order | - |
| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, confess |
| (verb) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | - |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: pretend |
| (verb) receive into a religious order or congregation | - |
| (verb) state freely | - |
| progress | (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
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| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
| reassess | (verb) revise or renew one's assessment | Synonyms: reevaluate |
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| recess | (verb) close at the end of a session | Synonyms: adjourn, break up |
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| (verb) make a recess in | - |
| (verb) put into a recess | - |
| redress | (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, right |
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| regress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, relapse, retrogress |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: retrograde, retrogress |
| (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: retrovert, return, revert, turn back |
| (verb) go back to a statistical means | - |
| repercuss | (verb) cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect | - |
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| repossess | (verb) claim back | Synonyms: reclaim |
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| (verb) regain possession of something | Synonyms: take back |
| repress | (verb) block the action of | - |
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| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: suppress |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate |
| (verb) impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of | - |
| reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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| retrogress | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, recidivate, regress, relapse |
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| (verb) get worse or fall back to a previous condition | Synonyms: regress, retrograde |
| sass | (verb) answer back in an impudent or insolent manner | - |
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| schuss | (verb) ski downhill | - |
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| siss | (verb) make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, sizz |
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| (verb) express or utter with a hiss | Synonyms: hiss, sibilate, sizz |
| stress | (verb) to suffer from stress | - |
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| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, accentuate |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, try |
| succuss | (verb) shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) | Synonyms: shake up |
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| suppress | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: conquer, stamp down, subdue |
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| (verb) lessen to the point of stopping | - |
| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: repress |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, inhibit |
| (verb) come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority | Synonyms: crush, oppress |
| surpass | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount |
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| (verb) move past | Synonyms: go by, go past, pass, pass by, travel by |
| (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: excel, stand out |
| (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, transcend |
| topdress | (verb) scatter manure or fertilizer over (land) | - |
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| toss | (verb) agitate | - |
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| (verb) throw or toss with a light motion | Synonyms: flip, pitch, sky |
| (verb) throw carelessly | Synonyms: chuck |
| (verb) lightly throw to see which side comes up | Synonyms: flip |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about |
| (verb) throw or cast away | Synonyms: cast aside, cast away, cast out, chuck out, discard, dispose, fling, put away, throw away, throw out, toss away, toss out |
| transgress | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, trespass |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, violate |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, trespass |
| (verb) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline | - |
| trespass | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
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| (verb) break the law | - |
| (verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
| (verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
| truss | (verb) support structurally | - |
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| (verb) tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it | - |
| (verb) secure with or as if with ropes | Synonyms: bind, tie down, tie up |
| uncompress | (verb) restore to its uncompressed form | Synonyms: decompress |
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| uncross | (verb) change from a crossed to an uncrossed position | - |
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| underdress | (verb) dress informally and casually | Synonyms: dress down |
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| (verb) dress without sufficient warmth | - |