| counterfeit | (verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: fake, forge |
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| counterplot | (verb) make a plot in response to another plot | - |
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| counterpoint | (verb) write in counterpoint | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: contrast |
| counterweight | (verb) constitute a counterweight or counterbalance to | Synonyms: counterpoise, counterpose |
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| 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 | - |
| covenant | (verb) enter into a covenant or formal agreement | - |
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| (verb) enter into a covenant | - |
| covet | (verb) wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person) | - |
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| craft | (verb) make by hand and with much skill | - |
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| credit | (verb) have trust in; trust in the truth or veracity of | - |
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| (verb) give someone credit for something | - |
| (verb) ascribe an achievement to | Synonyms: accredit |
| (verb) enter as credit | - |
| crest | (verb) reach a high point | - |
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| (verb) lie at the top of | Synonyms: cap |
| cricket | (verb) play cricket | - |
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| crochet | (verb) make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle | Synonyms: hook |
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| (verb) create by looping or crocheting | - |
| croquet | (verb) play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops | - |
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| (verb) drive away by hitting with one's ball | - |
| crosscut | (verb) cut using a diagonal line | Synonyms: cut across |
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| crust | (verb) form a crust or form into a crust | - |
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| curvet | (verb) perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse | - |
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| cut | (verb) cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses) | Synonyms: geld |
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| (verb) have grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) grow through the gums | - |
| (verb) cease, stop | Synonyms: cut off |
| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture | Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out |
| (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down |
| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: edit, edit out |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) have a reducing effect | - |
| (verb) shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of | - |
| (verb) dissolve by breaking down the fat of | - |
| (verb) make out and issue | Synonyms: issue, make out, write out |
| (verb) refuse to acknowledge | Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub |
| (verb) separate with or as if with an instrument | - |
| (verb) divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult | - |
| (verb) hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch | Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out |
| (verb) make an incision or separation | - |
| (verb) allow incision or separation | - |
| (verb) function as a cutting instrument | - |
| (verb) fell by sawing; hew | - |
| (verb) penetrate injuriously | - |
| (verb) reap or harvest | - |
| (verb) style and tailor in a certain fashion | Synonyms: tailor |
| (verb) form by probing, penetrating, or digging | - |
| (verb) record a performance on (a medium) | - |
| (verb) make a recording of | - |
| (verb) create by duplicating data | Synonyms: burn |
| (verb) form or shape by cutting or incising | - |
| (verb) perform or carry out | - |
| (verb) stop filming | - |
| (verb) make an abrupt change of image or sound | - |
| (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
| (verb) pass through or across | - |
| (verb) pass directly and often in haste | - |
| (verb) move (one's fist) | - |
| (verb) give the appearance or impression of | - |
| (verb) be able to manage or manage successfully | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) discharge from a group | - |
| (verb) intentionally fail to attend | Synonyms: skip |
| 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 | - |
| daunt | (verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare, scare away, scare off |
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| debit | (verb) enter as debit | - |
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| debut | (verb) appear for the first time in public | - |
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| (verb) make one's debut | - |
| (verb) present for the first time to the public | - |
| decant | (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: pour, pour out |
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| decoct | (verb) extract the essence of something by boiling it | - |
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| (verb) steep in hot water | - |
| (verb) be cooked until very little liquid is left | Synonyms: boil down, concentrate, reduce |
| deconstruct | (verb) interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing | - |
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| decrypt | (verb) convert code into ordinary language | Synonyms: decipher, decode |
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| deduct | (verb) reason by deduction; establish by deduction | Synonyms: deduce, derive, infer |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: subtract, take off |
| (verb) retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments | Synonyms: recoup, withhold |
| defat | (verb) remove the fat from | - |
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| default | (verb) fail to pay up | Synonyms: default on |
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| defeat | (verb) win a victory over | Synonyms: get the better of, overcome |
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| (verb) thwart the passage of | Synonyms: kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out |
| defect | (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: desert |
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| deflect | (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, parry |
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| (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: distract |
| (verb) turn aside and away from an initial or intended course | - |
| (verb) turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest | Synonyms: bend, turn away |
| (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
| deforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: disafforest, disforest |
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| defrost | (verb) make or become free of frost or ice | Synonyms: de-ice, deice |
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| degust | (verb) taste with relish | - |
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| deject | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down |
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| delight | (verb) take delight in | Synonyms: enjoy, revel |
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| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: please |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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| (verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
| (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
| delist | (verb) remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange | - |
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| demist | (verb) free from mist | Synonyms: defog |
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| dent | (verb) make a depression into | Synonyms: indent |
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| 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 |
| depict | (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: describe, draw |
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| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: picture, render, show |
| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: limn, portray |
| 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 |
| deposit | (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: lodge, stick, wedge |
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| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: fix, posit, situate |
| (verb) put into a bank account | Synonyms: bank |
| derestrict | (verb) make free from restrictions | - |
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| desalt | (verb) remove salt from | Synonyms: desalinate, desalinise, desalinize |
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| descant | (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: warble, yodel |
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| (verb) talk at great length about something of one's interest | - |
| (verb) sing in descant | - |
| 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 |
| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| detect | (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: discover, find, notice, observe |
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| detest | (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: hate |
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| detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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| diet | (verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight | - |
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| (verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons | - |
| diffract | (verb) undergo diffraction | - |
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| digest | (verb) make more concise | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
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| (verb) systematize, as by classifying and summarizing | - |
| (verb) become assimilated into the body | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate by means of chemical action, heat, or moisture | - |
| (verb) soften or disintegrate, as by undergoing exposure to heat or moisture | - |
| (verb) arrange and integrate in the mind | - |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, tolerate |
| (verb) convert food into absorbable substances | - |
| direct | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: engineer, mastermind, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| (verb) specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public | Synonyms: aim, calculate |
| (verb) command with authority | - |
| (verb) give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction | - |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: address |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, take, take aim, train |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, place, point, target |
| (verb) guide the actors in (plays and films) | - |
| (verb) lead, as in the performance of a composition | Synonyms: conduct, lead |
| (verb) take somebody somewhere | Synonyms: conduct, guide, lead, take |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: send |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) govern or manage | - |
| disaffect | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, estrange |
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| disafforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disforest |
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| disappoint | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of | Synonyms: let down |
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| discomfit | (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discompose, disconcert, untune, upset |
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| 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 |
| disconnect | (verb) make disconnected, disjoin or unfasten | - |
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| (verb) pull the plug of (electrical appliances) and render inoperable | Synonyms: unplug |
| discontent | (verb) make dissatisfied | - |
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| discount | (verb) bar from attention or consideration | Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, dismiss, disregard, ignore, push aside |
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| (verb) give a reduction in price on | - |
| discredit | (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept | Synonyms: disbelieve |
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| (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved | - |
| (verb) damage the reputation of | Synonyms: disgrace |
| disenchant | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disillusion |
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| disforest | (verb) remove the trees from | Synonyms: deforest, disafforest |
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| disgust | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, nauseate, revolt, sicken |
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| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: gross out, repel, revolt |
| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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| disinfest | (verb) rid of vermin | - |
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| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
| disjoint | (verb) become separated, disconnected or disjoint | Synonyms: disjoin |
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| (verb) make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of | Synonyms: disjoin |
| (verb) separate at the joints | Synonyms: disarticulate |
| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
| dismount | (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: get down, get off, light, unhorse |
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| disorient | (verb) cause to be lost or disoriented | Synonyms: disorientate |
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| dispirit | (verb) lower someone's spirits; make downhearted | Synonyms: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, get down |
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| 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 |
| disquiet | (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, distract, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
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| disrespect | (verb) have little or no respect for; hold in contempt | Synonyms: disesteem |
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| (verb) show a lack of respect for | - |
| disrupt | (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) throw into disorder | - |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt |
| dissect | (verb) make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, break down, take apart |
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| (verb) cut open or cut apart | - |
| dissent | (verb) withhold assent | - |
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| (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
| 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 |
| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| district | (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
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| distrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
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| 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 |
| divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
| docket | (verb) make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list | - |
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| (verb) place on the docket for legal action | - |
| document | (verb) support or supply with references | - |
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| (verb) record in detail | - |
| dogfight | (verb) engage in an aerial battle with another fighter plane | - |
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| (verb) arrange for an illegal dogfight | - |
| dot | (verb) mark with a dot | - |
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| (verb) make a dot or dots | - |
| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dust, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, stud |
| doubt | (verb) consider unlikely | - |
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| (verb) lack confidence in | - |
| draft | (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: enlist, muster in |
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| (verb) draw up an outline or sketch for something | Synonyms: outline |
| (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draught |
| draught | (verb) make a blueprint of | Synonyms: blueprint, draft |
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| drift | (verb) be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current | - |
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| (verb) be subject to fluctuation | - |
| (verb) drive slowly and far afield for grazing | - |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, float |
| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: err, stray |
| (verb) move in an unhurried fashion | - |
| (verb) cause to be carried by a current | - |
| (verb) live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely | Synonyms: freewheel |
| (verb) vary or move from a fixed point or course | - |
| dust | (verb) remove the dust from | - |
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| (verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, scatter, sprinkle |
| (verb) rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape | - |
| (verb) cover with a light dusting of a substance | - |
| eat | (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, rust |
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| (verb) take in solid food | - |
| (verb) eat a meal; take a meal | - |
| (verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way | Synonyms: eat on |
| edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
| (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
| (verb) supervise the publication of | - |