| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abate | (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: die away, let up, slack, slack off |
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| (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: slack, slake |
| abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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| aberrate | (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
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| (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, execrate, loathe |
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| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: abscond, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off |
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| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: quicken, speed, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, stress |
| acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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| accommodate | (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
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| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: conciliate, reconcile |
| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
| (verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
| (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: admit, hold |
| accrete | (verb) grow together (of plants and organs) | Synonyms: grow together |
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| (verb) grow or become attached by accretion | - |
| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| accumulate | (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up |
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| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: amass, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| acerbate | (verb) make sour or bitter | - |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: embitter, envenom |
| acetylate | (verb) receive substitution of an acetyl group | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
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| (verb) introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | Synonyms: acetylise, acetylize |
| acidulate | (verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidify, sour |
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| activate | (verb) make active or more active | - |
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| (verb) make (substances) radioactive | - |
| (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: aerate |
| (verb) make more adsorptive | - |
| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
| actuate | (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
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| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: incite, motivate, move, prompt, propel |
| acuminate | (verb) make sharp or acute; taper; make (something) come to a point | - |
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| adjudicate | (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: decide, resolve, settle |
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| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: judge, try |
| administrate | (verb) work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of | Synonyms: administer |
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| adulate | (verb) flatter in an obsequious manner | - |
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| adulterate | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: debase, dilute, load, stretch |
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| adumbrate | (verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of | Synonyms: outline, sketch |
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| (verb) give to understand | Synonyms: insinuate, intimate |
| advocate | (verb) push for something | Synonyms: recommend, urge |
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| (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: preach |
| aerate | (verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: activate |
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| (verb) impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen | Synonyms: oxygenate, oxygenise, oxygenize |
| (verb) expose to fresh air | Synonyms: air, air out |
| aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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| affiliate | (verb) join in an affiliation | - |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
| agglomerate | (verb) form into one cluster | - |
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| agglutinate | (verb) clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc. | - |
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| (verb) string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language) | - |
| aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
| aggregate | (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
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| (verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
| agitate | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: commove, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: budge, shift, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: shake |
| (verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: foment, stir up |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: campaign, crusade, fight, press, push |
| alienate | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: disaffect, estrange |
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| (verb) make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated | - |
| (verb) transfer property or ownership | Synonyms: alien |
| alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
| alliterate | (verb) use alliteration as a form of poetry | - |
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| allocate | (verb) distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose | Synonyms: apportion |
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| altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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| alternate | (verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
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| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
| (verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
| (verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
| (verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
| amalgamate | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: commix, mingle, mix, unify |
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| ambulate | (verb) walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking | - |
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| ameliorate | (verb) get better | Synonyms: better, improve, meliorate |
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| (verb) to make better | Synonyms: amend, better, improve, meliorate |
| ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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| amputate | (verb) remove surgically | Synonyms: cut off |
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| angulate | (verb) make or become angular | - |
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| animate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) make lively | Synonyms: enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up |
| (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animise, animize |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate |
| annihilate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| annotate | (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: comment, gloss |
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| (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: footnote |
| annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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| ante | (verb) place one's stake | - |
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| antedate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: foredate, predate |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, forego, forgo, precede, predate |
| anticipate | (verb) be a forerunner of or occur earlier than | - |
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| (verb) regard something as probable or likely | Synonyms: expect |
| (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: foreknow, foresee, previse |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
| (verb) be excited or anxious about | Synonyms: look for, look to |
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: counter, foresee, forestall |
| antiquate | (verb) give an antique appearance to | Synonyms: antique |
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| (verb) make obsolete or old-fashioned | - |
| appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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| (verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
| (verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
| (verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
| approbate | (verb) accept (documents) as valid | - |
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| (verb) approve or sanction officially | - |
| appropriate | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
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| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
| approximate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: estimate, gauge, guess, judge |
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| (verb) be close or similar | Synonyms: come close |
| arbitrate | (verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: intercede, intermediate, liaise, mediate |
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| arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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| (verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
| (verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
| articulate | (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out |
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| (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: enunciate, vocalise, vocalize |
| (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: formulate, give voice, phrase, word |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: joint |
| (verb) unite by forming a joint or joints | - |
| asphyxiate | (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: stifle, suffocate |
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| (verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: smother, suffocate |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate |
| aspirate | (verb) inhale (air, water, etc.) | - |
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| (verb) pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds | - |
| (verb) remove by suction | Synonyms: draw out, suck out |
| assassinate | (verb) destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation | - |
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| (verb) murder; especially of socially prominent persons | - |
| asseverate | (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, maintain |
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| assibilate | (verb) change into a sibilant | - |
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| (verb) insert a sibilant sound before or after (another sound) | - |
| assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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| (verb) make similar | - |
| (verb) become similar in sound | - |
| (verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
| associate | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: consociate |
| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort |
| assonate | (verb) correspond in vowel sounds; rhyme in assonance | - |
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| astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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| (verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
| attenuate | (verb) become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude | - |
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| (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: rarefy |
| attribute | (verb) attribute or credit to | Synonyms: ascribe, assign, impute |
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| (verb) decide as to where something belongs in a scheme | Synonyms: assign |
| auscultate | (verb) examine by auscultation | - |
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| auspicate | (verb) commence in a manner calculated to bring good luck | - |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| authenticate | (verb) establish the authenticity of something | - |
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| automate | (verb) make automatic or control or operate automatically | Synonyms: automatise, automatize |
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| aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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| backbite | (verb) say mean things | Synonyms: bitch |
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| backdate | (verb) make effective from an earlier date | - |
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| baste | (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
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| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
| bate | (verb) soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments | - |
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| (verb) flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons | - |
| (verb) moderate or restrain; lessen the force of | - |
| beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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| benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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| berate | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| bifurcate | (verb) divide into two branches | - |
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| (verb) split or divide into two | - |
| bite | (verb) to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws | Synonyms: seize with teeth |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut, as with a knife | - |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: prick, sting |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: burn, sting |
| blate | (verb) cry plaintively | Synonyms: baa, blat, bleat |
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| bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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| bombilate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombinate, buzz |
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| bombinate | (verb) make a buzzing sound | Synonyms: bombilate, buzz |
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| brachiate | (verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
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| brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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| (verb) form into breccia | - |
| bromate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: brominate |
| brominate | (verb) treat with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
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| (verb) react with bromine | Synonyms: bromate |
| butylate | (verb) introduce the butyl group into a chemical compound | - |
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| cachinnate | (verb) laugh loudly and in an unrestrained way | - |
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