abduct | (verb) pull away from the body | - |
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(verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: kidnap, nobble, snatch |
abet | (verb) assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing | - |
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abort | (verb) terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | - |
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(verb) cease development, die, and be aborted | - |
(verb) terminate before completion | - |
abreact | (verb) discharge bad feelings or tension through verbalization | - |
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absent | (verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
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abstract | (verb) consider a concept without thinking of a specific example; consider abstractly or theoretically | - |
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(verb) consider apart from a particular case or instance | - |
(verb) give an abstract (of) | - |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: cabbage, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
abut | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge, march |
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accent | (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accentuate, stress |
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(verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
accept | (verb) consider or hold as true | - |
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(verb) react favorably to; consider right and proper | - |
(verb) tolerate or accommodate oneself to | Synonyms: live with, swallow |
(verb) be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal | - |
(verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: consent, go for |
(verb) receive willingly something given or offered | Synonyms: have, take |
(verb) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person | Synonyms: assume, bear, take over |
(verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: admit, take, take on |
(verb) receive (a report) officially, as from a committee | - |
(verb) make use of or accept for some purpose | Synonyms: take |
(verb) be designed to hold or take | Synonyms: take |
accost | (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: hook, solicit |
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(verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: address, come up to |
account | (verb) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation | Synonyms: answer for |
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(verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: describe, report |
(verb) keep an account of | Synonyms: calculate |
(verb) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something | - |
accredit | (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: credit |
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(verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
(verb) provide or send (envoys or ambassadors) with official credentials | - |
acquaint | (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: introduce, present |
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(verb) make familiar or conversant with | Synonyms: familiarise, familiarize |
(verb) inform | - |
acquit | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: act, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: assoil, clear, discharge, exculpate, exonerate |
act | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, bear, behave, carry, comport, conduct, deport, do |
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(verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act as, play |
(verb) discharge one's duties | - |
(verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: play, represent |
(verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: play, playact, roleplay |
(verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: dissemble, pretend |
(verb) perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) | Synonyms: move |
(verb) have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected | Synonyms: work |
(verb) be suitable for theatrical performance | - |
adapt | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: accommodate |
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(verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adjust, conform |
addict | (verb) to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) | Synonyms: hook |
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adduct | (verb) draw a limb towards the body | - |
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adjust | (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: correct, set |
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(verb) adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions | Synonyms: adapt, conform |
(verb) make correspondent or conformable | - |
(verb) place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight | Synonyms: align, aline, line up |
(verb) decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim | - |
admit | (verb) declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
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(verb) admit into a group or community | Synonyms: accept, take, take on |
(verb) allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of | Synonyms: include, let in |
(verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: allow in, intromit, let in |
(verb) give access or entrance to | - |
(verb) serve as a means of entrance | - |
(verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: accommodate, hold |
(verb) afford possibility | Synonyms: allow |
adopt | (verb) take into one's family | Synonyms: take in |
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(verb) take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect | Synonyms: acquire, assume, take, take on |
(verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: embrace, espouse, sweep up |
(verb) put into dramatic form | Synonyms: dramatise, dramatize |
(verb) take up and practice as one's own | Synonyms: borrow, take over, take up |
(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: espouse, follow |
(verb) take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities | Synonyms: assume, take on, take over |
advect | (verb) convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid | - |
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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 |
affect | (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon | - |
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(verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on |
(verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: dissemble, feign, pretend, sham |
(verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: impress, move, strike |
(verb) connect closely and often incriminatingly | Synonyms: involve, regard |
afflict | (verb) cause physical pain or suffering in | Synonyms: smite |
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(verb) cause great unhappiness for; distress | - |
afforest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: forest |
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affright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: fright, frighten, scare |
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affront | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: diss, insult |
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airfreight | (verb) transport (cargo) by air | Synonyms: air-freight, air-ship |
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airlift | (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: lift |
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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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alight | (verb) come down | Synonyms: climb down |
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(verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: light, perch |
aliment | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: nourish, nutrify |
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allot | (verb) allow to have | Synonyms: accord, grant |
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(verb) give out | Synonyms: assign, portion |
(verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
amount | (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, come |
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(verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, come, number, total |
(verb) be tantamount or equivalent to | - |
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 | - |
anoint | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, embrocate, inunct, oil |
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(verb) choose by or as if by divine intervention | - |
appoint | (verb) furnish | - |
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(verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: charge |
(verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: constitute, name, nominate |
aquatint | (verb) etch in aquatint | - |
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arrest | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: check, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
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(verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, collar, cop, nab, nail, pick up |
(verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: catch, get |
(verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: halt, hold |
asphalt | (verb) cover with tar or asphalt | - |
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assault | (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, attack, lash out, round, snipe |
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(verb) attack someone physically or emotionally | Synonyms: assail, attack, set on |
(verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, ravish, violate |
assent | (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, acquiesce |
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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 |
assist | (verb) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function | - |
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(verb) work for, or be a servant to | Synonyms: attend, attend to, serve, wait on |
(verb) give help or assistance; be of service | Synonyms: aid, help |
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 |
attaint | (verb) condemn by attainder | - |
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(verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame |
attempt | (verb) enter upon an activity or enterprise | Synonyms: set about, undertake |
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(verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, essay, seek, try |
attest | (verb) authenticate, affirm to be true, genuine, or correct, as in an official capacity | - |
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(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: certify, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
(verb) give testimony in a court of law | Synonyms: bear witness, take the stand, testify |
(verb) establish or verify the usage of | - |
attract | (verb) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes | Synonyms: draw, draw in, pull, pull in |
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(verb) exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away | - |
(verb) be attractive to | Synonyms: appeal |
audit | (verb) attend academic courses without getting credit | - |
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(verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: inspect, scrutinise, scrutinize |
augment | (verb) grow or intensify | - |
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(verb) enlarge or increase | - |
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 |
await | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: expect, look, wait |
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babbitt | (verb) line with a Babbitt metal | - |
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babysit | (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, sit |
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(verb) take watchful responsibility for | Synonyms: baby-sit |
bait | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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(verb) attack with dogs or set dogs upon | - |
(verb) lure, entice, or entrap with bait | - |
ballast | (verb) make steady with a ballast | - |
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ballot | (verb) vote by ballot | - |
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bankrupt | (verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: break, ruin, smash |
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banquet | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: feast, junket |
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(verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: feast, junket |
basset | (verb) appear at the surface | Synonyms: crop out |
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bat | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: flutter |
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(verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash |
(verb) strike with, or as if with a baseball bat | - |
(verb) use a bat | - |
(verb) have a turn at bat | - |
bayonet | (verb) stab or kill someone with a bayonet | - |
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beat | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish |
(verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach |
(verb) hit repeatedly | - |
(verb) give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression | Synonyms: beat up, work over |
(verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: scramble |
(verb) strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music | - |
(verb) strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting | - |
(verb) shape by beating | - |
(verb) make by pounding or trampling | - |
(verb) produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly | - |
(verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: pound, thump |
(verb) sail with much tacking or with difficulty | - |
(verb) move with a flapping motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks | - |
(verb) move with a thrashing motion | Synonyms: flap |
(verb) move with or as if with a regular alternating motion | Synonyms: pulsate, quiver |
(verb) make a rhythmic sound | Synonyms: drum, thrum |
(verb) make a sound like a clock or a timer | Synonyms: tick, ticktack, ticktock |
(verb) glare or strike with great intensity | - |
(verb) avoid paying | Synonyms: bunk |
(verb) be superior | - |
bedight | (verb) decorate | Synonyms: bedeck, deck |
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befit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: beseem, suit |
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beget | (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: bring forth, engender, father, generate, get, mother, sire |
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belt | (verb) deliver a blow to | - |
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(verb) fasten with a belt | - |
(verb) sing loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: belt out |
benefact | (verb) help as a benefactor | - |
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benefit | (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: gain, profit |
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(verb) be beneficial for | Synonyms: do good |
benight | (verb) make darker and difficult to perceive by sight | Synonyms: bedim |
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(verb) envelop with social, intellectual, or moral darkness | - |
(verb) overtake with darkness or night | - |
beset | (verb) assail or attack on all sides: | Synonyms: set upon |
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(verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: encrust, incrust |
(verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
besot | (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: stupefy |
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bespot | (verb) mark with, or as if with, spots | - |
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best | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: outdo, outflank, scoop, trump |
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bet | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, rely, swear |
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(verb) maintain with or as if with a bet | Synonyms: wager |
(verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: play, wager |
bight | (verb) fasten with a bight | - |
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billet | (verb) provide housing for (military personnel) | Synonyms: canton, quarter |
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birdnest | (verb) gather birdnests | Synonyms: bird-nest |
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bisect | (verb) cut in half or cut in two | - |
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bitt | (verb) secure with a bitt | - |
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blacklist | (verb) put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted | - |
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blanket | (verb) cover as if with a blanket | - |
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(verb) form a blanket-like cover (over) | - |
blast | (verb) shatter as if by explosion | Synonyms: knock down |
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(verb) shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly | - |
(verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: crucify, pillory, savage |
(verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: shell |
(verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: shoot |
(verb) hit with great force | Synonyms: boom, nail, smash |
(verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: shell |
(verb) make with or as if with an explosion | - |
(verb) apply a draft or strong wind to to | - |
(verb) make a strident sound | Synonyms: blare |
blat | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blate, bleat |
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bleat | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, blate |
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(verb) talk whiningly | - |
blight | (verb) cause to suffer a blight | Synonyms: plague |
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bloat | (verb) become bloated or swollen or puff up | - |
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(verb) make bloated or swollen | - |
blot | (verb) dry (ink) with blotting paper | - |
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(verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, fleck, spot |
blueprint | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: draft, draught |
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blunt | (verb) make less sharp | - |
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(verb) make less intense | - |
(verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation | Synonyms: deaden |
(verb) make dull or blunt | Synonyms: dull |
(verb) make numb or insensitive | Synonyms: benumb, dull, numb |
blurt | (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt out, ejaculate |
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boast | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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(verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: feature, sport |
boat | (verb) ride in a boat on water | - |
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bodypaint | (verb) apply paint to a body | - |
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bolt | (verb) make or roll into bolts | - |
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(verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: gobble |
(verb) swallow hastily | - |
(verb) secure or lock with a bolt | - |
(verb) move or jump suddenly | - |
(verb) leave suddenly and as if in a hurry | Synonyms: beetle off, bolt out, run off, run out |
(verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, absquatulate, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
bonnet | (verb) dress in a bonnet | - |
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boost | (verb) increase or raise | Synonyms: advance, supercharge |
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(verb) give a boost to; be beneficial to | - |
(verb) push or shove upward, as if from below or behind | - |
(verb) increase | Synonyms: hike, hike up |
(verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, encourage, further, promote |