| abuse | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: misuse, pervert |
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| (verb) use wrongly or improperly or excessively | - |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: blackguard, clapperclaw, shout |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat, step |
| accuse | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: criminate, impeach, incriminate |
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| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: charge |
| amuse | (verb) make (somebody) laugh | - |
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| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: disport, divert |
| arouse | (verb) cause to be alert and energetic | Synonyms: brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: excite, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) to begin moving | Synonyms: stir |
| bemuse | (verb) cause to be confused emotionally | Synonyms: bewilder, discombobulate, throw |
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| bouse | (verb) haul with a tackle | Synonyms: bowse |
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| carouse | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
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| cause | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
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| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
| chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| circumfuse | (verb) spread something around something | - |
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| confuse | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred | Synonyms: blur, obnubilate, obscure |
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| (verb) mistake one thing for another | Synonyms: confound |
| (verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw |
| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: jumble, mix up |
| (verb) cause to feel embarrassment | Synonyms: disconcert, flurry, put off |
| contuse | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: bruise |
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| defuse | (verb) remove the triggering device from | - |
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| delouse | (verb) free of lice | - |
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| diffuse | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) move outward | Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out |
| disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief) | - |
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| douse | (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: dowse, drench, soak, sop, souse |
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| (verb) slacken | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) lower quickly | - |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, dunk, plunge, souse |
| (verb) dip into a liquid | Synonyms: dip, duck |
| (verb) wet thoroughly | Synonyms: dowse |
| (verb) put out, as of a candle or a light | Synonyms: put out |
| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| enthuse | (verb) utter with enthusiasm | - |
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| (verb) cause to feel enthusiasm | - |
| espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| excuse | (verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: condone |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: explain |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: exempt, let off, relieve |
| (verb) ask for permission to be released from an engagement | Synonyms: beg off |
| fuse | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) make liquid or plastic by heating | - |
| (verb) become plastic or fluid or liquefied from heat | - |
| (verb) equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse | - |
| grouse | (verb) complain | Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk |
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| (verb) hunt grouse | - |
| house | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: domiciliate, put up |
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| (verb) contain or cover | - |
| infuse | (verb) introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes | - |
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| (verb) let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse | Synonyms: steep |
| (verb) fill, as with a certain quality | Synonyms: impregnate, instill, tincture |
| (verb) undergo the process of infusion | - |
| (verb) teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions | Synonyms: inculcate, instill |
| misuse | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, pervert |
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| (verb) apply to a wrong thing or person; apply badly or incorrectly | Synonyms: misapply |
| mouse | (verb) manipulate the mouse of a computer | - |
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| (verb) to go stealthily or furtively | Synonyms: creep, pussyfoot, sneak |
| muse | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| overuse | (verb) make use of too often or too extensively | Synonyms: overdrive |
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| pause | (verb) cease an action temporarily | Synonyms: break, intermit |
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| (verb) interrupt temporarily an activity before continuing | Synonyms: hesitate |
| perfuse | (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: suffuse |
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| (verb) force a fluid through (a body part or tissue) | - |
| peruse | (verb) examine or consider with attention and in detail | - |
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| recuse | (verb) challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law | - |
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| (verb) disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case | - |
| refuse | (verb) show unwillingness towards | Synonyms: decline |
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| (verb) not accept as true | Synonyms: decline, pass up, reject, turn down |
| (verb) refuse to let have | Synonyms: deny |
| (verb) refuse entrance or membership | Synonyms: reject, turn away, turn down |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, resist |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: reject, resist |
| rehouse | (verb) put up in a new or different housing | - |
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| reuse | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reprocess |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| rouse | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on |
| (verb) force or drive out | Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out |
| (verb) become active | Synonyms: bestir |
| souse | (verb) cook in a marinade | - |
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| (verb) cover with liquid; pour liquid onto | Synonyms: douse, dowse, drench, soak, sop |
| (verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, inebriate, soak |
| (verb) immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate | Synonyms: dip, douse, dunk, plunge |
| suffuse | (verb) to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light | - |
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| (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: perfuse |
| transfuse | (verb) treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | Synonyms: cup |
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| (verb) give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to | - |
| (verb) pour out of one vessel into another | - |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: instill |
| use | (verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, employ, utilise, utilize |
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| (verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: habituate |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense) | - |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, practice |
| (verb) seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage | - |
| warehouse | (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
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