| spot | (verb) mark with a spot or spots so as to allow easy recognition | - |
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| (verb) become spotted | - |
| (verb) make a spot or mark onto | Synonyms: blob, blot, fleck |
| (verb) mar or impair with a flaw | Synonyms: blemish |
| (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, espy, spy |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, tell apart |
| spotlight | (verb) illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater | - |
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| (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: foreground, highlight, play up |
| spout | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave |
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| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spurt |
| sprint | (verb) run very fast, usually for a short distance | - |
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| sprout | (verb) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots | Synonyms: stock |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, spud |
| spurt | (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: squirt |
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| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: forge, spirt |
| (verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | Synonyms: gush, spirt, spout |
| squat | (verb) to perform the squat weightlifting exercise | - |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch, scrunch up |
| (verb) occupy (a dwelling) illegally | - |
| (verb) be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide | - |
| squint | (verb) cross one's eyes as if in strabismus | Synonyms: squinch |
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| (verb) partly close one's eyes, as when hit by direct blinding light | - |
| (verb) be cross-eyed; have a squint or strabismus | - |
| squirt | (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: eject, force out, squeeze out |
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| (verb) wet with a spurt of liquid | Synonyms: spurt |
| start | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, commence, get, get down, set about, set out, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, commence, lead off |
| (verb) play in the starting lineup | - |
| (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, originate |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: commence, embark on, start up |
| (verb) begin or set in motion | Synonyms: get going, go |
| (verb) get going or set in motion | Synonyms: start up |
| (verb) depart for someplace | Synonyms: depart, part, set forth, set off, set out, start out, take off |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop, pop out, protrude |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: jump, startle |
| (verb) begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object | Synonyms: begin |
| (verb) have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense | Synonyms: begin |
| (verb) have a beginning characterized in some specified way | Synonyms: begin |
| stet | (verb) direct that a matter marked for omission or correction is to be retained | - |
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| (verb) cancel, as of a correction or deletion | - |
| stint | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, skimp |
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| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, skimp |
| strut | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup |
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| stunt | (verb) perform a stunt or stunts | - |
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| (verb) to look good | - |
| (verb) check the growth or development of | - |
| subcontract | (verb) work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract | - |
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| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, job |
| subedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, copyread |
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| subject | (verb) make accountable for | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to | - |
| (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subjugate |
| sublet | (verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublease |
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| submit | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, resign |
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| (verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, state |
| (verb) refer for judgment or consideration | - |
| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, defer, give in |
| (verb) yield to the control of another | - |
| (verb) make an application as for a job or funding | Synonyms: put in |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, relegate |
| subsist | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, survive |
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| subtract | (verb) take off or away | - |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: deduct, take off |
| subvent | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvention, underwrite |
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| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| sugarcoat | (verb) cause to appear more pleasant or appealing | - |
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| (verb) coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze | Synonyms: candy, glaze |
| suggest | (verb) make a proposal, declare a plan for something | Synonyms: advise, propose |
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| (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: evoke, paint a picture |
| (verb) imply as a possibility | Synonyms: intimate |
| (verb) drop a hint; intimate by a hint | Synonyms: hint |
| suit | (verb) accord or comport with | Synonyms: befit, beseem |
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| (verb) enhance the appearance of | Synonyms: become |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: accommodate, fit |
| summit | (verb) reach the summit (of a mountain) | Synonyms: breast |
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| superinfect | (verb) infect (an infected cell) further or infect a cell already containing similar organisms | - |
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| supplant | (verb) take the place or move into the position of | Synonyms: replace, supersede, supervene upon |
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| supplement | (verb) add to the very end | Synonyms: add on, affix, append |
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| (verb) add as a supplement to what seems insufficient | - |
| (verb) serve as a supplement to | - |
| support | (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, substantiate, sustain |
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| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, tolerate |
| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: subscribe |
| (verb) argue or speak in defense of | Synonyms: defend, fend for |
| (verb) be a regular customer or client of | Synonyms: keep going, patronage, patronise, patronize |
| (verb) be the physical support of; carry the weight of | Synonyms: hold, hold up, sustain |
| (verb) play a subordinate role to (another performer) | - |
| (verb) support materially or financially | - |
| (verb) give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to | Synonyms: back up |
| (verb) be behind; approve of | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for |
| (verb) support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm | Synonyms: bear out, corroborate, underpin |
| surfeit | (verb) indulge (one's appetite) to satiety | - |
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| (verb) supply or feed to surfeit | Synonyms: cloy |
| surmount | (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, overcome, subdue |
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| (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass |
| (verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: scale |
| (verb) be on top of | - |
| suspect | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: distrust, mistrust |
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| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: surmise |
| (verb) hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty | - |
| swat | (verb) to make an illegitimate call to the police so as to have a SWAT team dispatched to a location | - |
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| (verb) hit swiftly with a violent blow | - |
| sweat | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sudate |
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| swot | (verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone, bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot up |
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| taint | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism | Synonyms: infect |
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| (verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, corrupt, defile, sully |
| talmbout | (verb) to talk about | - |
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| target | (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, point |
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| tat | (verb) make lacework by knotting or looping | Synonyms: intertwine |
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| taunt | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, tease, twit |
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| telecast | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: televise |
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| teleport | (verb) transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another | - |
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| tempt | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, influence |
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| (verb) dispose or incline or entice to | Synonyms: allure |
| (verb) try presumptuously | - |
| (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, lure |
| (verb) give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting | Synonyms: invite |
| (verb) try to seduce | - |
| tenant | (verb) occupy as a tenant | - |
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| tent | (verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, camp out, encamp |
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| test | (verb) undergo a test | - |
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| (verb) examine someone's knowledge of something | Synonyms: quiz |
| (verb) determine the presence or properties of (a substance) | - |
| (verb) achieve a certain score or rating on a test | - |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, examine, prove, try, try out |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) show a certain characteristic when tested | - |
| text | (verb) to send a message by SMS or similar text-based messaging service | - |
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| thermostat | (verb) control the temperature with a thermostat | - |
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| thirst | (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, starve |
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| (verb) feel the need to drink | - |
| thrust | (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: force |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: pierce |
| (verb) place or put with great energy | Synonyms: throw |
| (verb) push forcefully | - |
| (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, lunge |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, stuff |
| (verb) push violently in a specified direction | Synonyms: push up |
| (verb) force (molten rock) into pre-existing rock | - |
| thwart | (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil |
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| ticket | (verb) provide with a ticket for passage or admission | - |
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| (verb) record a fine as a penalty in a police record | Synonyms: fine |
| tilt | (verb) charge with a tilt | - |
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| (verb) to incline or bend from a vertical position | Synonyms: angle, lean, slant, tip |
| (verb) heel over | Synonyms: cant, cant over, pitch, slant |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, wobble |
| tinct | (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinge, tint, touch |
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| tint | (verb) color lightly | Synonyms: tinct, tinge, touch |
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| toast | (verb) make brown and crisp by heating | Synonyms: crisp, crispen |
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| (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, wassail |
| toot | (verb) make a strident noise | Synonyms: beep, blare, claxon, honk |
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| torment | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: excruciate, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: excruciate, rack, torture |
| (verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate, rag |
| tot | (verb) determine the sum of | Synonyms: add, add together, add up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot up, total, tote up |
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| tout | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
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| (verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
| transact | (verb) conduct business | - |
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| transect | (verb) cut across or divide transversely | - |
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| transit | (verb) make a passage or journey from one place to another | Synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through |
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| (verb) cause or enable to pass through | - |
| (verb) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction | - |
| (verb) pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place) | - |
| transmit | (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, send |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transport |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, impart |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, convey |
| transplant | (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transpose |
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| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: graft |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) be transplantable | - |
| transport | (verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: carry |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish |
| (verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances | - |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, ship |
| treat | (verb) provide treatment for | Synonyms: care for |
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| (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) regard or consider in a specific way | - |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow |
| (verb) engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: regale |
| (verb) provide with a gift or entertainment | - |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, handle |
| trisect | (verb) cut in three | - |
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| troat | (verb) emit a cry intended to attract other animals; used especially of animals at rutting time | - |
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| trot | (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, jog |
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| (verb) ride at a trot | - |
| (verb) cause to trot | - |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| trumpet | (verb) proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet | - |
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| (verb) utter in trumpet-like sounds | - |
| (verb) play or blow on the trumpet | - |
| trust | (verb) have confidence or faith in | - |
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| (verb) be confident about something | Synonyms: believe |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: desire, hope |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, entrust, intrust |
| (verb) (chiefly archaic) extend credit to | - |
| (verb) allow without fear | - |
| tut | (verb) utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval | Synonyms: tsk, tut-tut |
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| tweet | (verb) To post a message on Twitter; post tweets, i.e. short text messages on the popular social media website Twitter | - |
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| (verb) squeeze tightly between the fingers | Synonyms: nip, pinch, squeeze, twinge, twitch |
| (verb) make a weak, chirping sound | Synonyms: twirp |
| twist | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: rick, sprain, turn, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) form into twists | - |
| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, pervert, sophisticate, twist around |
| (verb) turn in the opposite direction | - |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: distort, twine |
| (verb) cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form | Synonyms: bend, deform, flex, turn |
| (verb) twist or pull violently or suddenly, especially so as to remove (something) from that to which it is attached or from where it originates | Synonyms: wrench |
| (verb) to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling) | Synonyms: squirm, worm, wrestle, wriggle, writhe |
| (verb) do the twist | - |
| (verb) extend in curves and turns | Synonyms: curve, wind |
| twit | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease |
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| typecast | (verb) identify as belonging to a certain type | Synonyms: type |
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| (verb) cast repeatedly in the same kind of role | - |
| typeset | (verb) set in type | Synonyms: set |
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| unbelt | (verb) undo the belt of | - |
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| unbolt | (verb) undo the bolt of | - |
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| underact | (verb) act (a role) with great restraint | Synonyms: underplay |
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| undercoat | (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, prime |
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| undercut | (verb) strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot | - |
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| (verb) cut away the underpart of | - |
| (verb) cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief | - |
| (verb) cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall | - |
| (verb) sell cheaper than one's competition | Synonyms: undersell |
| undershoot | (verb) shoot short of or below (a target) | - |
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| (verb) fall short of (the runway) in a landing | - |
| unfit | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: disqualify, indispose |
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| unknot | (verb) become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of | Synonyms: unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle |
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| unseat | (verb) dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse | - |
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| (verb) remove from political office | - |
| untwist | (verb) cause to become untwisted | - |
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| uplift | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up |
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| (verb) lift up or elevate | - |
| (verb) lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces | - |
| uproot | (verb) pull up by or as if by the roots | Synonyms: deracinate, extirpate, root out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, exterminate, extirpate, root out |
| (verb) move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment | Synonyms: deracinate |
| upset | (verb) disturb the balance or stability of | - |
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| (verb) defeat suddenly and unexpectedly | - |
| (verb) form metals with a swage | Synonyms: swage |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, trouble |
| (verb) cause to lose one's composure | Synonyms: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune |
| (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position | Synonyms: bowl over, knock over, overturn, tip over, tump over, turn over |
| valet | (verb) serve as a personal attendant to | - |
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| vault | (verb) bound vigorously | - |
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| (verb) jump across or leap over (an obstacle) | Synonyms: overleap |
| vaunt | (verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout |
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| venesect | (verb) practice venesection | - |
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| vent | (verb) expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen | Synonyms: air, air out, ventilate |
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| (verb) give expression or utterance to | Synonyms: give vent, ventilate |
| vest | (verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: robe |
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| (verb) clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments | - |
| (verb) place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons | - |
| (verb) become legally vested | - |
| (verb) provide with power and authority | Synonyms: enthrone, invest |