| greenlight | (verb) to allow a project (especially a TV show) to go ahead | - |
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| greet | (verb) react to in a certain way | - |
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| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: recognise, recognize |
| (verb) send greetings to | - |
| (verb) be perceived by | - |
| grit | (verb) clench together | - |
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| (verb) cover with a grit | - |
| grout | (verb) bind with grout | - |
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| grunt | (verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise | - |
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| gut | (verb) remove the guts of | - |
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| (verb) empty completely; destroy the inside of | - |
| habit | (verb) put a habit on | - |
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| halt | (verb) stop the flow of a liquid | Synonyms: stanch, staunch, stem |
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| (verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: stop |
| (verb) cause to come to an abrupt stop | Synonyms: arrest, hold |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, kibosh, stop |
| handcraft | (verb) make something by hand | - |
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| harvest | (verb) remove from a culture or a living or dead body, as for the purposes of transplantation | - |
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| (verb) gather, as of natural products | Synonyms: glean, reap |
| hat | (verb) put on or wear a hat | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a hat | - |
| haunt | (verb) haunt like a ghost; pursue | Synonyms: ghost, obsess |
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| (verb) follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to | Synonyms: stalk |
| (verb) be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place | Synonyms: frequent |
| headbutt | (verb) butt with the head | - |
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| heat | (verb) gain heat or get hot | Synonyms: heat up, hot up |
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| (verb) make hot or hotter | Synonyms: heat up |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, ignite, inflame, stir up, wake |
| (verb) provide with heat | - |
| heft | (verb) lift or elevate | Synonyms: heave, heave up, heft up |
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| (verb) test the weight of something by lifting it | - |
| heist | (verb) commit a burglary; enter and rob a dwelling | Synonyms: burglarise, burglarize, burgle |
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| highlight | (verb) apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent | - |
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| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, play up, spotlight |
| hint | (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: suggest |
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| hit | (verb) pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to | - |
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| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: pip, shoot |
| (verb) hit the intended target or goal | - |
| (verb) deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, impinge on, run into, strike |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) cause to move by striking | - |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, make, reach |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) reach a point in time, or a certain state or level | Synonyms: attain, reach |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, strike |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) kill intentionally and with premeditation | Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, murder, off, polish off, remove, slay |
| hoist | (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: lift, wind |
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| (verb) raise by using ropes and pulleys | Synonyms: run up |
| (verb) move from one place to another by lifting | - |
| hoot | (verb) to utter a loud clamorous shout | - |
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| (verb) utter the characteristic sound of owls | - |
| host | (verb) be the host of or for | - |
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| hotfoot | (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
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| hunt | (verb) pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals) | Synonyms: hunt down, run, track down |
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| (verb) search (an area) for prey | - |
| (verb) seek, search for | - |
| (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hound, trace |
| (verb) chase away, with as with force | - |
| (verb) yaw back and forth about a flight path | - |
| (verb) oscillate about a desired speed, position, or state to an undesirable extent | - |
| hurt | (verb) give trouble or pain to | - |
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| (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) cause damage or affect negatively | Synonyms: injure |
| (verb) hurt the feelings of | Synonyms: bruise, injure, offend, spite, wound |
| (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: anguish, pain |
| (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: ache, smart |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, suffer |
| impact | (verb) have an effect upon | Synonyms: affect, bear on, bear upon, touch, touch on |
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| (verb) press or wedge together; pack together | - |
| impart | (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, transmit |
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| (verb) transmit (knowledge or skills) | Synonyms: give, leave, pass on |
| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, contribute, lend |
| implant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: plant |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, plant |
| (verb) become attached to and embedded in the uterus | - |
| implement | (verb) pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue | Synonyms: carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through with, put through |
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| (verb) ensure observance of laws and rules | Synonyms: apply, enforce |
| (verb) apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design | - |
| import | (verb) indicate or signify | Synonyms: spell |
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| (verb) bring in from abroad | - |
| (verb) transfer (electronic data) into a database or document | - |
| imprint | (verb) mark or stamp with or as if with pressure | Synonyms: impress |
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| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: form |
| incrust | (verb) form a crust or a hard layer | Synonyms: encrust |
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| (verb) cover or coat with a crust | Synonyms: encrust |
| (verb) decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems) | Synonyms: beset, encrust |
| indent | (verb) bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant | Synonyms: indenture |
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| (verb) make a depression into | Synonyms: dent |
| (verb) cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication | - |
| (verb) notch the edge of or make jagged | - |
| (verb) set in from the margin | - |
| indict | (verb) accuse formally of a crime | - |
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| induct | (verb) introduce or initiate | - |
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| (verb) produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes | Synonyms: induce |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: invest, seat |
| (verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: initiate |
| (verb) admit as a member | - |
| infect | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: taint |
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| (verb) communicate a disease to | - |
| (verb) affect in a contagious way | - |
| (verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology | - |
| infest | (verb) invade in great numbers | Synonyms: overrun |
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| (verb) live on or in a host, as of parasites | - |
| (verb) occupy in large numbers or live on a host | Synonyms: invade, overrun |
| inflect | (verb) vary the pitch of one's speech | Synonyms: modulate, tone |
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| (verb) change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language | - |
| inflict | (verb) impose something unpleasant | Synonyms: bring down, impose, visit |
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| infract | (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, offend, transgress, violate |
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| ingest | (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, assimilate, take in |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: consume, have, take, take in |
| ingraft | (verb) cause to grow together parts from different plants | Synonyms: engraft, graft |
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| inhabit | (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, live, populate |
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| (verb) be present in | - |
| (verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: dwell |
| inherit | (verb) obtain from someone after their death | - |
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| (verb) receive by genetic transmission | - |
| (verb) receive from a predecessor | - |
| inhibit | (verb) prohibit, forbid, or prevent from doing something | - |
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| (verb) make (someone) self-conscious and as a result unable to act naturally | - |
| (verb) consciously restrain from showing; of emotions, desires, impulses, or behavior | Synonyms: bottle up, suppress |
| (verb) limit, block, or decrease the action or function of | - |
| inject | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: shoot |
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| (verb) to introduce (a new aspect or element) | - |
| (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, interject, interpose, put in, throw in |
| (verb) feed intravenously | - |
| (verb) take by injection | - |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: shoot |
| input | (verb) enter (data or a program) into a computer | - |
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| insert | (verb) place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing | Synonyms: enclose, inclose, introduce, put in, stick in |
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| (verb) insert casually | Synonyms: slip in, sneak in, stick in |
| (verb) put or introduce into something | Synonyms: enter, infix, introduce |
| (verb) fit snugly into | Synonyms: tuck |
| inset | (verb) set or place in | - |
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| insist | (verb) postulate positively and assertively | Synonyms: assert |
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| (verb) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge | Synonyms: take a firm stand |
| (verb) beg persistently and urgently | Synonyms: importune |
| inspect | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, scrutinise, scrutinize |
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| (verb) come to see in an official or professional capacity | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) look over carefully | - |
| inspirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: spirit, spirit up |
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| instruct | (verb) impart skills or knowledge to | Synonyms: learn, teach |
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| (verb) give instructions or directions for some task | - |
| (verb) make aware of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| instrument | (verb) address a legal document to | - |
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| (verb) write an instrumental score for | Synonyms: instrumentate |
| (verb) equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling | - |
| insult | (verb) treat, mention, or speak to rudely | Synonyms: affront, diss |
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| interact | (verb) act together or towards others or with others | - |
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| intercept | (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: stop |
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| (verb) tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information | Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap |
| interconnect | (verb) cause to be interconnected or interwoven | Synonyms: interlink |
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| (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: complect, interlink |
| interdict | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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| (verb) destroy by firepower, such as an enemy's line of communication | - |
| interest | (verb) excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of | - |
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| (verb) be of importance or consequence | Synonyms: matter to |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, occupy, worry |
| interject | (verb) to insert between other elements | Synonyms: come in, inject, interpose, put in, throw in |
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| intermit | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, pause |
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| interpret | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, see |
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| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: read, translate, understand |
| (verb) give an interpretation or explanation to | Synonyms: rede |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: render, translate |
| (verb) give an interpretation or rendition of | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: represent |
| interrupt | (verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: break |
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| (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: disturb |
| (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: disrupt |
| (verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt |
| intersect | (verb) meet at a point | Synonyms: cross |
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| introject | (verb) incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously | - |
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| intromit | (verb) allow to enter; grant entry to | Synonyms: admit, allow in, let in |
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| introspect | (verb) reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| introvert | (verb) turn inside | - |
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| (verb) fold inwards | Synonyms: invaginate |
| intrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, trust |
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| intuit | (verb) know or grasp by intuition or feeling | - |
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| intussuscept | (verb) introvert or invaginate | - |
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| inunct | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, embrocate, oil |
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| invent | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, formulate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, make up, manufacture |
| invert | (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: reverse, turn back |
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| (verb) make an inversion (in a musical composition) | - |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: reverse |
| invest | (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, place, put |
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| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, vest |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, seat |
| (verb) furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors | Synonyms: adorn, clothe |
| (verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: empower, endow, endue, gift, indue |
| irrupt | (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: explode |
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| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up |
| (verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: intrude |
| jacket | (verb) put a jacket on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jacklight | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
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| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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| jaunt | (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
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| jest | (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: joke |
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| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: joke |
| jet | (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: gush |
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| (verb) fly a jet plane | - |
| jilt | (verb) cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly | - |
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| joint | (verb) fasten with a joint | - |
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| (verb) separate (meat) at the joint | - |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: articulate |
| (verb) fit as if by joints | - |
| jolt | (verb) disturb (someone's) composure | - |
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| (verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion | Synonyms: jar |
| jot | (verb) write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of | Synonyms: jot down |
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| joust | (verb) joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | - |
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| jumpstart | (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| junket | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
| jut | (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut out, project, protrude, stick out |
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| kit | (verb) supply with a set of articles or tools | Synonyms: kit out, kit up |
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| knight | (verb) raise (someone) to knighthood | Synonyms: dub |
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| knit | (verb) to gather something into small wrinkles or folds | Synonyms: cockle, crumple, pucker, rumple |
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| (verb) make (textiles) by knitting | - |
| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: entwine |
| knot | (verb) tie or fasten into a knot | - |
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| (verb) tangle or complicate | Synonyms: ravel, tangle |
| (verb) make into knots; make knots out of | - |
| lambast | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambaste |
| lament | (verb) regret strongly | Synonyms: bemoan, bewail, deplore |
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| (verb) express grief verbally | Synonyms: keen |
| last | (verb) persist for a specified period of time | Synonyms: endure |
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| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, live, live on, survive |
| let | (verb) leave unchanged | - |
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| (verb) cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) actively cause something to happen | - |
| (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, permit |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, rent |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, permit |
| levant | (verb) run off without paying a debt | - |
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