| lift | (verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
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| (verb) remove from a surface | - |
| (verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
| (verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
| (verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
| (verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
| (verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) make audible | - |
| (verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
| (verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
| (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
| (verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
| (verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
| light | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up |
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| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, ignite |
| (verb) begin to smoke | Synonyms: fire up, light up |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, perch |
| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: ignite |
| lilt | (verb) articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way | - |
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| limit | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
| list | (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: heel |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: lean |
| (verb) include in a list | - |
| loft | (verb) lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | - |
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| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) kick or strike high in the air | - |
| (verb) store in a loft | - |
| loot | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plunder |
| lot | (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
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| (verb) divide into lots, as of land, for example | - |
| lust | (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, starve, thirst |
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| maledict | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
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| malt | (verb) convert into malt | - |
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| (verb) turn into malt, become malt | - |
| (verb) convert grain into malt | - |
| (verb) treat with malt or malt extract | - |
| maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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| manifest | (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
| (verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
| manumit | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: emancipate |
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| mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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| market | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, commercialize |
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| (verb) engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of | - |
| (verb) deal in a market | - |
| (verb) buy household supplies | - |
| mat | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
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| (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, snarl, tangle |
| meet | (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, play, take on |
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| (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, satisfy |
| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, contact, touch |
| (verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, encounter, run across, run into, see |
| (verb) meet by design; be present at the arrival of | - |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: suffer |
| (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, gather |
| (verb) get together socially or for a specific purpose | Synonyms: get together |
| (verb) get to know; get acquainted with | - |
| (verb) experience as a reaction | Synonyms: encounter, receive |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: converge |
| melt | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| (verb) reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating | Synonyms: melt down, run |
| (verb) lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually | Synonyms: meld |
| (verb) become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial | Synonyms: mellow, mellow out |
| (verb) become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly | Synonyms: fade |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, evaporate |
| merit | (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: deserve |
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| mint | (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: coin, strike |
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| miscast | (verb) cast an actor, singer, or dancer in an unsuitable role | - |
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| misconduct | (verb) manage badly or incompetently | Synonyms: mishandle, mismanage |
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| (verb) behave badly | Synonyms: misbehave, misdemean |
| miscount | (verb) count wrongly | - |
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| misdirect | (verb) put a wrong address on | Synonyms: misaddress |
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| (verb) lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions | Synonyms: lead astray, misguide, mislead |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misprint | (verb) print incorrectly | - |
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| misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
| mist | (verb) become covered with mist | Synonyms: mist over |
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| (verb) spray finely or cover with mist | - |
| (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, fog, haze over, obnubilate, obscure |
| mistreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, step |
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| mistrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, suspect |
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| molest | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, plague, provoke |
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| (verb) harass or assault sexually; make indecent advances to | - |
| molt | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, moult, shed, slough |
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| moonlight | (verb) work a second job, usually after hours | - |
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| moot | (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: consider, debate, deliberate, turn over |
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| motorboat | (verb) ride in a motorboat | - |
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| moult | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, shed, slough |
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| mount | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, rise, wax |
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| (verb) fix onto a backing, setting, or support | - |
| (verb) attach to a support | - |
| (verb) copulate with | Synonyms: ride |
| (verb) put up or launch | - |
| (verb) prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance | Synonyms: put on |
| (verb) go upward with gradual or continuous progress | Synonyms: climb, climb up, go up |
| (verb) get up on the back of | Synonyms: bestride, climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount up |
| mulct | (verb) impose a fine on | Synonyms: fine |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| neglect | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) give little or no attention to | Synonyms: disregard, ignore |
| (verb) fail to attend to | - |
| (verb) fail to do something; leave something undone | Synonyms: fail |
| nest | (verb) fit together or fit inside | - |
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| (verb) gather nests | - |
| (verb) move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position | Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nestle, nuzzle, snuggle |
| (verb) inhabit a nest, usually after building | - |
| net | (verb) catch with a net | Synonyms: nett |
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| (verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: web |
| (verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, sack, sack up |
| (verb) yield as a net profit | Synonyms: clear |
| nett | (verb) catch with a net | Synonyms: net |
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| nut | (verb) gather nuts | - |
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| object | (verb) express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent | - |
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| (verb) be averse to or express disapproval of | - |
| obstruct | (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, jam, obturate, occlude |
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| (verb) shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight | Synonyms: block |
| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| occult | (verb) hide from view | - |
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| (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: eclipse |
| (verb) become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished | - |
| offset | (verb) produce by offset printing | - |
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| (verb) create an offset in | - |
| (verb) cause (printed matter) to transfer or smear onto another surface | - |
| (verb) make up for | Synonyms: cancel, set off |
| (verb) compensate for or counterbalance | Synonyms: countervail |
| omit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, overleap, overlook, pretermit |
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| (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, exclude, leave off, leave out, take out |
| opt | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, prefer |
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| orbit | (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, revolve |
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| orient | (verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: tailor |
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| (verb) familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances | - |
| (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orientate |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: point |
| (verb) cause to point | - |
| ornament | (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace |
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| (verb) be an ornament to | - |
| oust | (verb) remove from a position or office | Synonyms: boot out, drum out, expel, kick out, throw out |
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| (verb) remove and replace | - |
| out | (verb) be made known; be disclosed or revealed | Synonyms: come out |
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| (verb) reveal (something) about somebody's identity or lifestyle | - |
| (verb) to state openly and publicly one's homosexuality | Synonyms: come out, come out of the closet |
| outfight | (verb) to fight better than; get the better of | - |
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| outfit | (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: equip, fit, fit out |
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| outlast | (verb) live longer than | Synonyms: outlive, survive |
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| outpoint | (verb) score more points than one's opponents | Synonyms: outscore |
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| (verb) sail closer to the wind than | - |
| output | (verb) to create or manufacture a specific amount | - |
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| outshout | (verb) shout louder than | Synonyms: outcry |
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| outsmart | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outwit, overreach |
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| (verb) defeat by more skillful maneuvering | Synonyms: outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre |
| outwit | (verb) beat through cleverness and wit | Synonyms: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, overreach |
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| overact | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overplay |
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| overcast | (verb) sew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next | - |
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| (verb) sew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches | - |
| (verb) make overcast or cloudy | Synonyms: cloud |
| overeat | (verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff |
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| overexert | (verb) exert (oneself) excessively and go beyond one's strength | - |
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| overexploit | (verb) exploit excessively | - |
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| overheat | (verb) get excessively and undesirably hot | - |
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| (verb) make excessively or undesirably hot | - |
| overprint | (verb) print (additional text or colors) onto an already imprinted paper | Synonyms: print over |
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| overprotect | (verb) protect excessively | - |
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| (verb) care for like a mother | Synonyms: fuss, mother |
| overreact | (verb) show an exaggerated response to something | - |
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| overshoot | (verb) aim too high | - |
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| (verb) shoot beyond or over (a target) | - |
| paint | (verb) apply paint to; coat with paint | - |
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| (verb) apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil | - |
| (verb) make a painting of | - |
| (verb) make a painting | - |
| pant | (verb) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted | Synonyms: gasp, heave, puff |
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| (verb) utter while panting, as if out of breath | - |
| parent | (verb) look after a child until it is an adult | Synonyms: bring up, nurture, raise, rear |
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| parget | (verb) apply ornamental plaster to | - |
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| parrot | (verb) repeat mindlessly | - |
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| part | (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: divide, separate |
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| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, divide, separate |
| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: depart, set forth, set off, set out, start, start out, take off |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: separate, split |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, separate, split, split up |
| pat | (verb) hit lightly | Synonyms: dab |
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| (verb) pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin | Synonyms: chuck |
| patent | (verb) make open to sight or notice | - |
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| (verb) obtain a patent for | - |
| (verb) grant rights to; grant a patent for | - |
| pelt | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
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| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| perfect | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
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| permit | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, let |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, tolerate |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, let |
| persist | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, prevail, run |
| pervert | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, misuse |
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| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| pet | (verb) stroke or caress gently | - |
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| (verb) stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking | - |
| photostat | (verb) make a copy by means of a Photostat device | - |
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| picket | (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
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| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pigment | (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
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| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| pilot | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, fly |
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| (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: navigate |
| pinpoint | (verb) locate exactly | Synonyms: nail |
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| pit | (verb) remove the pits from | Synonyms: stone |
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| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: match, oppose, play off |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pock, scar |
| pivot | (verb) turn on a pivot | Synonyms: swivel |
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| plait | (verb) weave into plaits | - |
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| (verb) make by braiding or interlacing | Synonyms: braid, lace |
| plant | (verb) put firmly in the mind | Synonyms: implant |
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| (verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, imbed, implant |
| (verb) place something or someone in a certain position in order to secretly observe or deceive | - |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, found, institute |
| (verb) place into a river | - |
| plat | (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plot |
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| playact | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, roleplay |
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| pleat | (verb) pleat or gather into a ruffle | Synonyms: ruffle |
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| (verb) fold into pleats | Synonyms: plicate |
| plight | (verb) promise solemnly and formally | Synonyms: pledge |
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| (verb) give to in marriage | Synonyms: affiance, betroth, engage |