| reset | (verb) set to zero | - |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: readjust |
| (verb) set anew | - |
| reshoot | (verb) shoot again | - |
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| resift | (verb) sift anew | - |
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| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| resort | (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: repair |
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| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, recur |
| respect | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, value |
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| (verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, observe |
| rest | (verb) be at rest | - |
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| (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, stay |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather |
| (verb) give a rest to | - |
| (verb) not move; be in a resting position | - |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, roost |
| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: pillow |
| (verb) put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying | - |
| (verb) be inactive, refrain from acting | - |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: lie |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, reside |
| restart | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, resume |
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| (verb) start an engine again, for example | Synonyms: re-start |
| restrict | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed | - |
| resubmit | (verb) submit (information) again to a program or automatic system | Synonyms: feed back |
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| result | (verb) come about or follow as a consequence | - |
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| (verb) issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end | Synonyms: ensue |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, leave |
| resurrect | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, upraise |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: rise, uprise |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: revive |
| ret | (verb) place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue | - |
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| retort | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, return, riposte |
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| retract | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, resile |
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| (verb) pull inward or towards a center | Synonyms: draw in |
| (verb) use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ) | Synonyms: draw back, pull back |
| (verb) pull away from a source of disgust or fear | Synonyms: shrink back |
| retransmit | (verb) transmit again | - |
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| retreat | (verb) make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity | Synonyms: back away, back out, crawfish, crawfish out, pull back, pull in one's horns, withdraw |
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| (verb) pull back or move away or backward | Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, recede, retire, withdraw |
| (verb) move back | Synonyms: retrograde |
| (verb) move away, as for privacy | - |
| retrofit | (verb) substitute new or modernized parts or equipment for older ones | - |
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| (verb) fit in or on an existing structure, such as an older house | - |
| (verb) provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture | - |
| retrospect | (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, review |
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| retrovert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, return, revert, turn back |
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| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| revet | (verb) face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain | - |
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| (verb) construct a revetment | - |
| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| revolt | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, sicken |
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| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, repel |
| (verb) make revolution | - |
| ricochet | (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring, take a hop |
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| right | (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, rectify |
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| (verb) regain an upright or proper position | - |
| (verb) put in or restore to an upright position | - |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, redress |
| riot | (verb) take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot | - |
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| (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, roister |
| rivet | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore |
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| (verb) hold (someone's attention) | - |
| (verb) fasten with a rivet or rivets | - |
| roast | (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| rocket | (verb) propel with a rocket | - |
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| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| roost | (verb) settle down or stay, as if on a roost | - |
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| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, rest |
| root | (verb) take root and begin to grow | - |
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| (verb) cause to take roots | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: settle, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: rootle, rout |
| (verb) plant by the roots | - |
| (verb) cheer for | - |
| (verb) come into existence, originate | - |
| rot | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: waste |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, moulder |
| roughcast | (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
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| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| rout | (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
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| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| rust | (verb) become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid | Synonyms: corrode |
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| (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, eat |
| (verb) become coated with oxide | - |
| rut | (verb) hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove | Synonyms: furrow, groove |
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| (verb) be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals | - |
| saint | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, canonize |
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| (verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: enshrine |
| salt | (verb) preserve with salt | - |
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| (verb) add zest or liveliness to | - |
| (verb) sprinkle as if with salt | - |
| (verb) add salt to | - |
| sandblast | (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
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| scant | (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| (verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
| (verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
| scat | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
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| scent | (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: perfume |
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| (verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: nose, wind |
| (verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odorize, odourise |
| scoot | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scud, shoot |
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| scout | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
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| screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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| script | (verb) write a script for | - |
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| sculpt | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpture |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpture |
| seat | (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for | Synonyms: sit, sit down |
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| (verb) place or attach firmly in or on a base | - |
| (verb) place in or on a seat | - |
| (verb) provide with seats | - |
| (verb) put a seat on a chair | - |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, invest |
| (verb) be able to seat | - |
| sediment | (verb) settle as sediment | - |
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| (verb) deposit as a sediment | - |
| segment | (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
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| (verb) divide or split up | - |
| select | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, take |
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| set | (verb) arrange attractively | Synonyms: arrange, coif, coiffe, coiffure, do, dress |
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| (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: fructify |
| (verb) alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard | Synonyms: adjust, correct |
| (verb) put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state | - |
| (verb) set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly | - |
| (verb) equip with sails or masts | Synonyms: rig, set up |
| (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, jell |
| (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set up |
| (verb) get ready for a particular purpose or event | Synonyms: lay out, set up |
| (verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: determine |
| (verb) estimate | Synonyms: place, put |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, limit, specify |
| (verb) establish as the highest level or best performance | Synonyms: mark |
| (verb) urge to attack someone | Synonyms: sic |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, position, put |
| (verb) fix in a border | - |
| (verb) give a fine, sharp edge to a knife or razor | - |
| (verb) insert (a nail or screw below the surface, as into a countersink) | Synonyms: countersink |
| (verb) put or set (seeds, seedlings, or plants) into the ground | Synonyms: plant |
| (verb) put into a position that will restore a normal state | - |
| (verb) adapt for performance in a different way | Synonyms: arrange |
| (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, localize, place |
| (verb) set in type | Synonyms: typeset |
| (verb) apply or start | - |
| (verb) disappear beyond the horizon | Synonyms: go down, go under |
| shaft | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
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| (verb) equip with a shaft | - |
| sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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| shart | (verb) to intend to release flatulence but actually defecate | - |
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| sheet | (verb) cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping | - |
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| (verb) come down as if in sheets | - |
| shift | (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
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| (verb) move and exchange for another | - |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
| (verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
| (verb) change in quality | - |
| (verb) change gears | - |
| (verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
| (verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |
| shirt | (verb) put a shirt on | - |
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| shit | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| shoot | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: inject |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud |
| (verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant | - |
| (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, snap |
| (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, take |
| (verb) utter fast and forcefully | - |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, pip |
| (verb) score | - |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: inject |
| (verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | - |
| (verb) throw dice, as in a crap game | - |
| (verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in | - |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: pip |
| (verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | - |
| shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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| short | (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
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| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| shortlist | (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
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| shout | (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shunt | (verb) transfer to another track, of trains | - |
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| (verb) provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt | - |
| shut | (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: close |
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| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: close |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: exclude, keep out, shut out |
| sift | (verb) distinguish and separate out | Synonyms: sieve |
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| (verb) separate by passing through a sieve or other straining device to separate out coarser elements | Synonyms: sieve, strain |
| (verb) check and sort carefully | Synonyms: sieve |
| (verb) move as if through a sieve | - |
| sight | (verb) catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes | Synonyms: spy |
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| (verb) take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device) | - |
| signpost | (verb) mark with a signpost, as of a path | - |
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| silt | (verb) become chocked with silt | Synonyms: silt up |
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| sit | (verb) serve in a specific professional capacity | - |
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| (verb) be in a position in which one's upper body is largely upright and supported by one's backside | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for | Synonyms: seat, sit down |
| (verb) take a seat | Synonyms: sit down |
| (verb) be in session | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: ride |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, posture |
| (verb) work or act as a baby-sitter | Synonyms: baby-sit, babysit |
| (verb) be around, often idly or without specific purpose | Synonyms: sit around |
| (verb) be located or situated somewhere | - |
| skimcoat | (verb) coat with a mixture of gypsum and spackle | - |
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| skirt | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep |
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| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, ring, surround |
| (verb) pass around or about; move along the border | - |
| (verb) form the edge of | - |
| skyrocket | (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: rocket |
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| slant | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, weight |
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| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, tilt, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, tilt |
| (verb) lie obliquely | - |
| slat | (verb) close the slats of (windows) | - |
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| (verb) equip or bar with slats | - |
| sleet | (verb) precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow | - |
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| slight | (verb) pay no attention to, disrespect | Synonyms: cold-shoulder |
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| slit | (verb) cut a slit into | - |
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| (verb) make a clean cut through | Synonyms: slice |
| slot | (verb) assign a time slot | - |
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| smart | (verb) be the source of pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
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| smelt | (verb) extract (metals) by heating | - |
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| smut | (verb) affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn | - |
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| (verb) stain with a dirty substance, such as soot | - |
| (verb) become affected with smut | - |
| (verb) make obscene | - |
| snapchat | (verb) To have a conversation on Snapchat | - |
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| snort | (verb) make a snorting sound by exhaling hard | - |
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| (verb) indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose | - |
| (verb) inhale through the nose | Synonyms: take a hit |
| (verb) inhale recreational drugs | Synonyms: huff |
| solicit | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, tap |
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| (verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, hook |
| (verb) incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination | - |
| (verb) make a solicitation or petition for something desired | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, romance, woo |
| somersault | (verb) do a somersault | - |
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| sonnet | (verb) compose a sonnet | - |
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| (verb) praise in a sonnet | - |
| soot | (verb) coat with soot | - |
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| sort | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, classify, separate, sort out |
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| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen, screen out, sieve |
| spat | (verb) clap one's hands together | Synonyms: clap |
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| (verb) spawn | - |
| (verb) engage in a brief and petty quarrel | - |
| (verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: acclaim, applaud, clap |
| (verb) strike with a sound like that of falling rain | - |
| (verb) become permanently attached | - |
| (verb) come down like raindrops | - |
| spirit | (verb) infuse with spirit | Synonyms: inspirit, spirit up |
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| spirt | (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spurt |
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| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spout, spurt |
| spit | (verb) expel or eject (saliva or phlegm or sputum) from the mouth | Synonyms: ptyalise, ptyalize, spew, spue |
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| (verb) utter with anger or contempt | Synonyms: spit out |
| (verb) drive a skewer through | Synonyms: skewer |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: patter, pitter-patter, spatter, sprinkle |
| splat | (verb) split open and flatten for cooking | - |
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| (verb) flatten on impact | - |
| (verb) give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact | - |
| splint | (verb) support with a splint | - |
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| split | (verb) come open suddenly and violently, as if from internal pressure | Synonyms: break open, burst |
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| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, rive |
| (verb) go one's own way; move apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
| (verb) discontinue an association or relation; go different ways | Synonyms: break, break up, part, separate, split up |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, divide, separate, split up |
| sport | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark |
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| (verb) wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner | Synonyms: boast, feature |
| sportscast | (verb) broadcast a sports event | - |
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