anguish | (verb) cause emotional anguish or make miserable | Synonyms: hurt, pain |
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(verb) suffer great pains or distress | - |
contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
(verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
(verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
(verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
extinguish | (verb) put an end to; kill | Synonyms: snuff out |
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(verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, eradicate, wipe out |
(verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, eliminate, get rid of |
(verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, press out, stub, stub out |
(verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights | Synonyms: blow out, quench, snuff out |
languish | (verb) become feeble | Synonyms: fade |
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(verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: pine away, waste |
(verb) have a desire for something or someone who is not present | Synonyms: ache, pine, yearn, yen |
relinquish | (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, release |
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(verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: foreswear, quit, renounce |
(verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, resign |
(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, waive |
squish | (verb) put (a liquid) into a container or another place by means of a squirting action | - |
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(verb) walk through mud or mire | Synonyms: slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch |
vanquish | (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce |
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