| effect | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
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| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| egest | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: eliminate, excrete, pass |
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| eject | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, exhaust, expel, release |
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| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: force out, squeeze out, squirt |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, exclude, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule | - |
| elect | (verb) choose | - |
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| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| emit | (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: breathe, pass off |
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| (verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: let loose, let out, utter |
| (verb) give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. | Synonyms: give off, give out |
| enact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, reenact |
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| (verb) order by virtue of superior authority; decree | Synonyms: ordain |
| enchant | (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, glamour, hex, jinx, witch |
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| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| encrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: incrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: incrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, incrust |
| encrypt | (verb) convert ordinary language into code | Synonyms: cipher, code, cypher, encipher, inscribe, write in code |
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| englut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| engraft | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, imbed, implant, plant |
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| (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: graft, ingraft |
| enlist | (verb) join the military | - |
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| (verb) engage somebody to enter the army | Synonyms: draft, muster in |
| (verb) hire for work or assistance | Synonyms: engage |
| entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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| entrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, intrust, trust |
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| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: leave |
| erect | (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: put up, raise, rear, set up |
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| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: rear |
| eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
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| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
| erupt | (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, extravasate |
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| (verb) start abruptly | Synonyms: break out |
| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, recrudesce |
| (verb) break out | Synonyms: break through, come out, push through |
| (verb) appear on the skin | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, burst |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
| escort | (verb) accompany as an escort | - |
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| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: see |
| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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| (verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
| exact | (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
| exalt | (verb) raise in rank, character, or status | - |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| except | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) object to | Synonyms: demur |
| excerpt | (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: extract, take out |
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| exempt | (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: excuse, let off, relieve |
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| (verb) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to | Synonyms: free, relieve |
| exert | (verb) put to use | Synonyms: exercise |
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| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: maintain, wield |
| (verb) make a great effort at a mental or physical task | - |
| exhaust | (verb) wear out completely | Synonyms: beat, tucker, tucker out, wash up |
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| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel, release |
| (verb) use up the whole supply of | - |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) deplete | Synonyms: play out, run down, sap, tire |
| exhibit | (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: march, parade |
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| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, present, show |
| (verb) to show, make visible or apparent | Synonyms: display, expose |
| (verb) show an attribute, property, knowledge, or skill | - |
| exhort | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: press, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, cheer, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| exist | (verb) have an existence, be extant | Synonyms: be |
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| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: live, subsist, survive |
| exit | (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, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| (verb) lose the lead | - |
| (verb) move out of or depart from | Synonyms: get out, go out, leave |
| expect | (verb) be pregnant with | Synonyms: bear, carry, gestate, have a bun in the oven |
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| (verb) look forward to the birth of a child | - |
| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: anticipate |
| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, look, wait |
| (verb) consider reasonable or due | - |
| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, require |
| experiment | (verb) to conduct a test or investigation | - |
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| (verb) try something new, as in order to gain experience | Synonyms: try out |
| exploit | (verb) use or manipulate to one's advantage | Synonyms: work |
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| (verb) draw from; make good use of | Synonyms: tap |
| (verb) work excessively hard | Synonyms: overwork |
| export | (verb) cause to spread in another part of the world | - |
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| (verb) sell or transfer abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) out of a database or document in a format that can be used by other programs | - |
| exposit | (verb) state | Synonyms: expound, set forth |
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| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| exsert | (verb) thrust or extend out | Synonyms: extend, hold out, put out, stretch forth, stretch out |
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| extort | (verb) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | Synonyms: wring from |
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| (verb) obtain by coercion or intimidation | Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring |
| (verb) obtain through intimidation | - |
| extract | (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill |
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| (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: excerpt, take out |
| (verb) calculate the root of a number | - |
| (verb) remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense | Synonyms: draw out, pull, pull out, pull up, rip out, take out, tear out |
| (verb) obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action | Synonyms: express, press out |
| (verb) separate (a metal) from an ore | - |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, evoke |
| (verb) get despite difficulties or obstacles | - |
| exult | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, jubilate, rejoice, triumph |
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| (verb) feel extreme happiness or elation | Synonyms: be on cloud nine, jump for joy, walk on air |
| faggot | (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot up, fagot |
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| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: fagot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: fagot |
| fagot | (verb) bind or tie up in or as if in a faggot | Synonyms: faggot, faggot up |
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| (verb) fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them | Synonyms: faggot |
| (verb) ornament or join (fabric) by faggot stitch | Synonyms: faggot |
| faint | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: conk, pass out, swoon |
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| fart | (verb) expel intestinal gases through the anus | Synonyms: break wind |
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| fast | (verb) abstain from eating | - |
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| (verb) abstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons | - |
| fat | (verb) make fat or plump | Synonyms: fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out |
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| fault | (verb) put or pin the blame on | Synonyms: blame |
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| feast | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, junket |
| (verb) gratify | Synonyms: feed |
| feint | (verb) deceive by a mock action | - |
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| felt | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
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| (verb) cover with felt | - |
| (verb) mat together and make felt-like | - |
| ferment | (verb) go sour or spoil | Synonyms: sour, turn, work |
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| (verb) cause to undergo fermentation | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) work up into agitation or excitement | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated or excited state | - |
| ferret | (verb) search and discover through persistent investigation | Synonyms: ferret out |
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| (verb) hunt with ferrets | - |
| (verb) hound or harry relentlessly | - |
| fidget | (verb) move restlessly | - |
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| fight | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, struggle |
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| (verb) fight against or resist strongly | Synonyms: defend, fight back, fight down, oppose |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: struggle |
| (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, press, push |
| filet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: fillet |
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| (verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: fillet |
| fillet | (verb) cut into filets | Synonyms: filet |
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| (verb) decorate with a lace of geometric designs | Synonyms: filet |
| fingerprint | (verb) take an impression of a person's fingerprints | - |
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| fistfight | (verb) fight with the fists | - |
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| fit | (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: match |
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| (verb) make fit | - |
| (verb) insert or adjust several objects or people | - |
| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fulfil, fulfill, meet, satisfy |
| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit out, outfit |
| (verb) be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired | Synonyms: go |
| (verb) conform to some shape or size | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: accommodate, suit |
| flabbergast | (verb) overcome with amazement | Synonyms: boggle, bowl over |
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| flaunt | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, ostentate, show off, swank |
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| fleet | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, evanesce, fade, pass, pass off |
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| (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, flit, flutter |
| flight | (verb) decorate with feathers | Synonyms: fledge |
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| (verb) fly in a flock | - |
| (verb) shoot a bird in flight | - |
| flirt | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, mash, philander, romance |
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| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, play, toy |
| flit | (verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flutter |
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| float | (verb) convert from a fixed point notation to a floating point notation | - |
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| (verb) allow (currencies) to fluctuate | - |
| (verb) make the surface of level or smooth | - |
| (verb) put into the water | - |
| (verb) be in motion due to some air or water current | Synonyms: be adrift, blow, drift |
| (verb) be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom | Synonyms: swim |
| (verb) set afloat | - |
| (verb) move lightly, as if suspended | - |
| (verb) circulate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with | - |
| floodlight | (verb) illuminate with floodlights | - |
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| flout | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, gibe, jeer, scoff |
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| (verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: scoff |
| foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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| (verb) to force onto another | - |
| foment | (verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions | - |
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| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: agitate, stir up |
| foot | (verb) add a column of numbers | Synonyms: foot up |
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| (verb) walk | Synonyms: hoof, hoof it, leg it |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: pick |
| forecast | (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
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| (verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| forest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
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| forfeit | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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| forget | (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank |
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| (verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: bury |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: leave |
| (verb) forget to do something | - |
| format | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: initialise, initialize |
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| (verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) | - |
| (verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: arrange |
| fort | (verb) station (troops) in a fort | - |
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| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fortify |
| (verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense | Synonyms: fort up |
| foxhunt | (verb) hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs | - |
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| foxtrot | (verb) dance the foxtrot | - |
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| fragment | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
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| freight | (verb) load with goods for transportation | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially as cargo | - |
| frequent | (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: haunt |
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| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, patronise, patronize, shop, shop at, sponsor |
| fret | (verb) wear away or erode | Synonyms: eat away |
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| (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, erode |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, rub, scratch |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, gag |
| (verb) decorate with an interlaced design | - |
| (verb) carve a pattern into | - |
| (verb) be agitated or irritated | - |
| (verb) cause annoyance in | - |
| (verb) gnaw into; make resentful or angry | Synonyms: eat into, grate, rankle |
| (verb) worry unnecessarily or excessively | Synonyms: fuss, niggle |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: chafe, gall |
| (verb) provide (a musical instrument) with frets | - |
| fright | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, frighten, scare |
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| front | (verb) confront bodily | Synonyms: breast |
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| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, look |
| frost | (verb) damage by frost | - |
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| (verb) decorate with frosting | Synonyms: ice |
| (verb) provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance | - |
| (verb) cover with frost | - |
| fruit | (verb) bear fruit | - |
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| (verb) cause to bear fruit | - |
| gallivant | (verb) wander aimlessly in search of pleasure | Synonyms: gad, jazz around |
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| garment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, habilitate, raiment, tog |
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| genuflect | (verb) bend the knees and bow in church or before a religious superior or image | - |
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| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: kowtow, scrape |
| get | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: contract, take |
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| (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, grow, produce |
| (verb) make (offspring) by reproduction | Synonyms: beget, bring forth, engender, father, generate, mother, sire |
| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: have, suffer, sustain |
| (verb) enter or assume a certain state or condition | Synonyms: become, go |
| (verb) give certain properties to something | Synonyms: make |
| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: have, let |
| (verb) receive a specified treatment (abstract) | Synonyms: find, incur, obtain, receive |
| (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, commence, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
| (verb) reach by calculation | - |
| (verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, have, induce, make, stimulate |
| (verb) communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone | - |
| (verb) move into a desired direction of discourse | Synonyms: aim, drive |
| (verb) take vengeance on or get even | Synonyms: fix, pay back, pay off |
| (verb) attract and fix | Synonyms: arrest, catch |
| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, convey, fetch |
| (verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: capture, catch |
| (verb) reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) overcome or destroy | - |
| (verb) earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) apprehend and reproduce accurately | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) evoke an emotional response | - |
| (verb) irritate | Synonyms: get under one's skin |
| (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, come |
| (verb) reach and board | - |
| (verb) leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form | Synonyms: bugger off, buzz off, fuck off, scram |
| (verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: experience, have, receive |
| (verb) suffer from the receipt of | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) perceive by hearing | Synonyms: catch |
| (verb) receive as a retribution or punishment | Synonyms: receive |
| (verb) come into the possession of something concrete or abstract | Synonyms: acquire |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: have, make |
| (verb) purchase | - |
| (verb) acquire as a result of some effort or action | - |
| ghost | (verb) write for someone else | Synonyms: ghostwrite |
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| (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: haunt, obsess |
| (verb) move like a ghost | - |
| gibbet | (verb) hang on an execution instrument | - |
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| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: pillory |
| gift | (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: give, present |
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| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, indue, invest |
| glint | (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glisten, glitter, shine |
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| (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, peek |
| gloat | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, triumph |
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| (verb) gaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy | - |
| glut | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, oversupply |
| graft | (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, ingraft |
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| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: transplant |
| grant | (verb) be willing to concede | Synonyms: concede, yield |
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| (verb) allow to have | Synonyms: accord, allot |
| (verb) let have | Synonyms: allow |
| (verb) transfer by deed | Synonyms: deed over |
| (verb) give as judged due or on the basis of merit | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: cede, concede, yield |
| (verb) bestow, especially officially | Synonyms: give |