| plot | (verb) plan secretly, usually something illegal | - |
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| (verb) make a plot of | Synonyms: plat |
| (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: diagram |
| (verb) devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet) | - |
| plummet | (verb) drop sharply | Synonyms: plump |
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| pocket | (verb) put in one's pocket | - |
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| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
| podcast | (verb) distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | - |
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| point | (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: sharpen, taper |
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| (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: repoint |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, show |
| (verb) indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle | - |
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, level |
| (verb) be positionable in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, target |
| (verb) mark with diacritics | - |
| (verb) mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes | - |
| (verb) mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: luff |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: orient |
| port | (verb) modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | - |
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| (verb) drink port | - |
| (verb) carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons | - |
| (verb) carry, bear, convey, or bring | - |
| (verb) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) put or turn on the left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) land at or reach a port | - |
| (verb) bring to port | - |
| posit | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
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| (verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
| post | (verb) display, as of records in sports games | - |
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| (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: brand |
| (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, send |
| (verb) publicize with, or as if with, a poster | - |
| (verb) To post a message on a social media website | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, send, station |
| (verb) place so as to be noticed | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) mark with a stake | Synonyms: stake |
| (verb) affix in a public place or for public notice | - |
| (verb) ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait | - |
| (verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) enter on a public list | - |
| (verb) assign to a post; put into a post | - |
| pot | (verb) plant in a pot | - |
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| pout | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, mow |
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| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, sulk |
| predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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| preempt | (verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
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| (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
| (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
| preexist | (verb) exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time | - |
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| preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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| present | (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, represent |
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| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, introduce |
| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: salute |
| (verb) formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. | - |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, face |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: represent, stage |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: portray |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, give |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: pose |
| pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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| (verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| print | (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: impress |
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| (verb) make into a print | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: publish |
| (verb) write as if with print; not cursive | - |
| prizefight | (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
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| profit | (verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
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| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| project | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
| (verb) communicate vividly | - |
| (verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
| (verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
| (verb) draw a projection of | - |
| (verb) cause to be heard | - |
| (verb) project on a screen | - |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
| prompt | (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, instigate |
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| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, remind |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel |
| prospect | (verb) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals | - |
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| (verb) search for something desirable | - |
| protect | (verb) shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage | - |
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| (verb) use tariffs to favor domestic industry | - |
| protest | (verb) utter words of protest | - |
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| (verb) affirm or avow formally or solemnly | - |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, resist |
| protract | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, prolong |
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| punt | (verb) place a bet on | Synonyms: back, bet on, gage, game, stake |
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| (verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: pole |
| (verb) kick the ball | - |
| purport | (verb) propose or intend | Synonyms: aim, propose, purpose |
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| (verb) have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming | - |
| pussyfoot | (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, mouse, sneak |
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| put | (verb) arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events | Synonyms: arrange, order, set up |
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| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: place, set |
| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, redact |
| (verb) attribute or give | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, set |
| (verb) cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation | - |
| (verb) adapt | - |
| (verb) cause (someone) to undergo something | - |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: commit, invest, place |
| putt | (verb) strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter | - |
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| (verb) hit a putt | - |
| quest | (verb) seek alms, as for religious purposes | - |
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| (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, request |
| (verb) bark with prolonged noises, of dogs | Synonyms: bay |
| (verb) search the trail of (game) | - |
| (verb) make a search (for) | - |
| quiet | (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet down, quieten |
| quilt | (verb) create by stitching together | - |
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| (verb) stitch or sew together | - |
| quit | (verb) give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat | Synonyms: chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, throw in, throw in the towel |
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| (verb) go away or leave | Synonyms: depart, take leave |
| (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, relinquish, renounce |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, resign, step down |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, stop |
| rabbet | (verb) cut a rectangular groove into | - |
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| (verb) join with a rabbet joint | - |
| rabbit | (verb) hunt rabbits | - |
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| racket | (verb) hit (a ball) with a racket | - |
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| (verb) make loud and annoying noises | - |
| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
| raft | (verb) make into a raft | - |
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| (verb) travel by raft in water | - |
| (verb) transport on a raft | - |
| raiment | (verb) provide with clothes or put clothes on | Synonyms: apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, tog |
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| rant | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rave, spout |
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| rat | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) catch rats, especially with dogs | - |
| (verb) give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat | - |
| (verb) desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage | - |
| (verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, scab |
| (verb) employ scabs or strike breakers in | - |
| ratchet | (verb) move by degrees in one direction only | Synonyms: rachet up, ratchet down |
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| react | (verb) undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions | - |
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| (verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: respond |
| (verb) act against or in opposition to | Synonyms: oppose |
| readapt | (verb) adapt anew | - |
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| (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readjust |
| readjust | (verb) adjust anew | Synonyms: readapt |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: reset |
| readmit | (verb) admit anew | - |
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| (verb) admit again or anew | - |
| reallot | (verb) allot again | - |
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| reassert | (verb) strengthen or make more firm | Synonyms: confirm |
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| reboot | (verb) cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes | Synonyms: boot, bring up |
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| rebroadcast | (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rerun |
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| rebut | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: controvert, refute |
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| (verb) overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof | Synonyms: refute |
| recant | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, resile, retract |
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| recast | (verb) cast again, in a different role | - |
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| (verb) cast again | Synonyms: remold, remould |
| (verb) cast or model anew | Synonyms: reforge, remodel |
| receipt | (verb) mark or stamp as paid | - |
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| (verb) report the receipt of | Synonyms: acknowledge |
| recollect | (verb) recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection | Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, remember, retrieve, think |
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| recommit | (verb) send back to a committee | - |
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| (verb) commit again | - |
| (verb) commit once again, as of a crime | - |
| reconstruct | (verb) do over, as of (part of) a house | Synonyms: redo, remodel |
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| (verb) cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | - |
| (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: construct, retrace |
| (verb) build again | Synonyms: rebuild |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: restore |
| reconvert | (verb) convert back | - |
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| reconvict | (verb) convict anew | - |
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| recount | (verb) narrate or give a detailed account of | Synonyms: narrate, recite, tell |
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| (verb) count again | - |
| recruit | (verb) cause to assemble or enlist in military | Synonyms: levy, raise |
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| (verb) seek to employ | - |
| (verb) register formally as a participant or member | Synonyms: enrol, enroll, enter, inscribe, raise |
| redact | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: edit |
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| (verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, frame, put |
| redeposit | (verb) deposit anew | - |
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| (verb) deposit once again | - |
| redirect | (verb) channel into a new direction | Synonyms: airt |
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| reelect | (verb) elect again | Synonyms: return |
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| reenact | (verb) act out; represent or perform as if in a play | Synonyms: act out, enact |
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| (verb) enact or perform again | - |
| (verb) enact again | - |
| refit | (verb) fit out again | - |
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| reflect | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) give evidence of the quality of | - |
| (verb) give evidence of a certain behavior | - |
| (verb) to throw or bend back (from a surface) | Synonyms: reverberate |
| (verb) manifest or bring back | - |
| (verb) show an image of | - |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: shine |
| refloat | (verb) set afloat again | - |
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| reforest | (verb) forest anew | - |
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| refract | (verb) determine the refracting power of (a lens) | - |
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| (verb) subject to refraction | - |
| regift | (verb) give a present that one has received to someone else | - |
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| regiment | (verb) assign to a regiment | - |
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| (verb) form (military personnel) into a regiment | - |
| (verb) subject to rigid discipline, order, and systematization | - |
| regret | (verb) decline formally or politely | - |
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| (verb) express with regret | - |
| (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: repent, rue |
| (verb) feel sad about the loss or absence of | - |
| reheat | (verb) heat again | - |
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| reinterpret | (verb) assign a new or different meaning to | - |
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| (verb) interpret from a different viewpoint | Synonyms: re-explain |
| reinvent | (verb) create anew and make over | - |
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| (verb) bring back into existence | - |
| reject | (verb) not accept something given or offered | - |
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| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: eliminate, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) deem wrong or inappropriate | Synonyms: disapprove |
| (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, scorn, spurn, turn down |
| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, refuse, turn down |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: refuse, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, resist |
| relent | (verb) give in, as to influence or pressure | Synonyms: soften, yield |
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| remit | (verb) make slack as by lessening tension or firmness | Synonyms: slacken |
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| (verb) diminish or abate | - |
| (verb) release from (claims, debts, or taxes) | - |
| (verb) refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision | Synonyms: remand, send back |
| (verb) forgive | - |
| (verb) send (money) in payment | - |
| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, set back, shelve, table |
| remount | (verb) provide with fresh horses | - |
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| (verb) mount again, as after disassembling something | - |
| (verb) mount again | - |
| rent | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take |
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| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: lease, let |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, lease |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: lease |
| reorient | (verb) set or arrange in a new or different determinate position | - |
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| (verb) cause to turn | - |
| (verb) orient once again, after a disorientation | Synonyms: reorientate |
| repaint | (verb) to apply another layer of paint | - |
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| (verb) paint a particular subject again | - |
| repeat | (verb) happen or occur again | Synonyms: recur |
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| (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, restate, retell |
| (verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: echo |
| (verb) make or do or perform again | Synonyms: double, duplicate, reduplicate, replicate |
| (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, reprise, reprize |
| (verb) do over | Synonyms: take over |
| repent | (verb) feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about | Synonyms: regret, rue |
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| (verb) turn away from sin or do penitence | Synonyms: atone |
| replant | (verb) plant again or anew | - |
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| repoint | (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: point |
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| report | (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, describe |
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| (verb) make known to the authorities | - |
| (verb) complain about; make a charge against | - |
| (verb) announce one's presence | - |
| (verb) announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding | - |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: cover |
| reposit | (verb) put (something) in a place for storage | - |
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| repot | (verb) put in a new, usually larger, pot | - |
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| represent | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: map |
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| (verb) serve as a means of expressing something | - |
| (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify |
| (verb) point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance | - |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, present |
| (verb) describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality | - |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, play |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, stage |
| (verb) be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute | - |
| (verb) be representative or typical for | - |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up |
| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: exemplify |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: correspond, stand for |
| reprint | (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reissue |
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| request | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest |
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| (verb) ask (a person) to do something | - |
| (verb) inquire for (information) | - |
| reseat | (verb) show to a different seat | - |
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| (verb) provide with new seats | - |
| (verb) provide with a new seat | - |
| resect | (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: eviscerate |
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| resent | (verb) feel bitter or indignant about | - |
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| (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: begrudge |