| mislay | (verb) place (something) where one cannot find it again | Synonyms: misplace |
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| mismarry | (verb) marry an unsuitable partner | - |
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| misplay | (verb) play wrong or in an unskillful manner | - |
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| (verb) play incorrectly, e.g., play a wrong note | - |
| modify | (verb) make less severe or harsh or extreme | - |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: qualify |
| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, change |
| mollify | (verb) make less rigid or softer | - |
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| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, season, temper |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate |
| monkey | (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey around, muck about, muck around, potter, putter, tinker |
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| (verb) play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly | Synonyms: fiddle, tamper |
| mortify | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate |
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| (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, subdue |
| (verb) practice self-denial of one's body and appetites | - |
| mosey | (verb) walk leisurely | Synonyms: amble |
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| motley | (verb) make motley; color with different colors | Synonyms: parti-color |
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| (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: variegate, vary |
| muddy | (verb) make turbid | - |
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| (verb) cause to become muddy | - |
| (verb) dirty with mud | Synonyms: muddy up |
| multiply | (verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms) | Synonyms: breed |
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| (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: procreate, reproduce |
| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: manifold |
| (verb) combine by multiplication | - |
| mummify | (verb) dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture | Synonyms: dry up |
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| (verb) remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it | - |
| (verb) preserve while making lifeless | - |
| mutiny | (verb) engage in a mutiny against an authority | - |
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| mystify | (verb) make mysterious | - |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| nazify | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character | - |
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| nitrify | (verb) treat (soil) with nitrates | - |
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| (verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrogenise, nitrogenize |
| (verb) convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria | - |
| notify | (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprise, apprize, give notice, send word |
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| nullify | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, neutralize |
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| (verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: invalidate |
| (verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, quash, void |
| nutrify | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nourish |
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| obey | (verb) be obedient to | - |
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| objectify | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, depersonalize |
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| (verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize |
| occupy | (verb) consume all of one's attention or time | Synonyms: absorb, engage, engross |
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| (verb) march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation | Synonyms: invade |
| (verb) require (time or space) | Synonyms: take, use up |
| (verb) keep busy with | Synonyms: busy |
| (verb) assume, as of positions or roles | Synonyms: fill, take |
| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, reside |
| (verb) occupy the whole of | Synonyms: fill |
| (verb) be on the mind of | Synonyms: concern, interest, worry |
| okay | (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., sanction |
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| opacify | (verb) become opaque | - |
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| (verb) make opaque | - |
| ossify | (verb) become bony | - |
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| (verb) cause to become hard and bony | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: petrify, rigidify |
| outcry | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, shout |
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| (verb) shout louder than | Synonyms: outshout |
| outplay | (verb) excel or defeat in a game | - |
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| outstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: overstay |
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| (verb) surpass in staying power | - |
| overfly | (verb) fly over | Synonyms: pass over |
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| overjoy | (verb) cause to feel extremely joyful or happy | - |
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| overlay | (verb) put something on top of something else | Synonyms: cover |
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| (verb) kill by lying on | Synonyms: overlie |
| overpay | (verb) pay too much | - |
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| overplay | (verb) exaggerate one's acting | Synonyms: ham, ham it up, overact |
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| oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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| overstay | (verb) stay too long | Synonyms: outstay |
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| oversupply | (verb) supply with an excess of | Synonyms: flood, glut |
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| overweary | (verb) tire excessively | Synonyms: overfatigue, overtire |
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| pacify | (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) | - |
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| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate |
| palsy | (verb) affect with palsy | - |
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| parlay | (verb) stake winnings from one bet on a subsequent wager | Synonyms: double up |
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| parley | (verb) discuss, as between enemies | - |
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| parody | (verb) make a parody of | Synonyms: burlesque, spoof |
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| (verb) make a spoof of or make fun of | - |
| parry | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, evade, fudge, hedge, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball) | Synonyms: block, deflect |
| party | (verb) have or participate in a party | - |
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| pay | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: devote, give |
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| (verb) bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action | - |
| (verb) convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) give money, usually in exchange for goods or services | - |
| (verb) bring in | Synonyms: bear, yield |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: compensate, make up, pay off |
| (verb) cancel or discharge a debt | Synonyms: ante up, pay up |
| (verb) make a compensation for | - |
| (verb) discharge or settle | - |
| (verb) render | - |
| (verb) be worth it | - |
| personify | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personate |
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| (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, embody |
| (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: body |
| petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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| (verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
| photocopy | (verb) reproduce by xerography | Synonyms: run off, xerox |
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| pillory | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, savage |
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| (verb) punish by putting in a pillory | - |
| (verb) expose to ridicule or public scorn | Synonyms: gibbet |
| pinkify | (verb) make pink | - |
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| pity | (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: compassionate, condole with, feel for, sympathize with |
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| play | (verb) engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously | Synonyms: toy |
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| (verb) pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind | Synonyms: act, act as |
| (verb) exhaust by allowing to pull on the line | - |
| (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, trifle |
| (verb) participate in games or sport | - |
| (verb) bet or wager (money) | - |
| (verb) contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle | Synonyms: encounter, meet, take on |
| (verb) put (a card or piece) into play during a game, or act strategically as if in a card game | - |
| (verb) make bets | - |
| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, wager |
| (verb) shoot or hit in a particular manner | - |
| (verb) employ in a game or in a specific position | - |
| (verb) use or move | - |
| (verb) use to one's advantage | - |
| (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: diddle, fiddle, toy |
| (verb) discharge or direct or be discharged or directed as if in a continuous stream | - |
| (verb) replay (as a melody) | Synonyms: spiel |
| (verb) perform music on (a musical instrument) | - |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, represent |
| (verb) perform on a certain location | - |
| (verb) be performed or presented for public viewing | - |
| (verb) cause to emit recorded audio or video | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) pretend to be somebody in the framework of a game or playful activity | - |
| (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, playact, roleplay |
| (verb) emit recorded sound | - |
| (verb) play on an instrument | - |
| (verb) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence | Synonyms: bring, make for, work, wreak |
| (verb) move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly | - |
| (verb) cause to move or operate freely within a bounded space | - |
| (verb) engage in recreational activities rather than work; occupy oneself in a diversion | Synonyms: recreate |
| (verb) behave in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children | - |
| (verb) act or have an effect in a specified way or with a specific effect or outcome | - |
| (verb) behave carelessly or indifferently | Synonyms: dally, flirt, toy |
| (verb) be received or accepted or interpreted in a specific way | - |
| ply | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: cater, provide, supply |
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| (verb) use diligently | - |
| (verb) wield vigorously | - |
| (verb) join together as by twisting, weaving, or molding | - |
| (verb) travel a route regularly | Synonyms: run |
| (verb) apply oneself diligently | - |
| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| pray | (verb) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer | - |
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| (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, implore |
| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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| preoccupy | (verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
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| (verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance | - |
| prepay | (verb) pay for something before receiving it | - |
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| prettify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, fancify |
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| prey | (verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: feed |
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| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, raven |
| prophesy | (verb) predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration | Synonyms: vaticinate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: preach |
| pry | (verb) be nosey | - |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, prize |
| (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry | Synonyms: prise |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, poke |
| purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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| (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
| (verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
| purvey | (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: provision |
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| putrefy | (verb) become putrid; decay with an offensive smell | - |
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| putty | (verb) apply putty in order to fix or fill | - |
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| qualify | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: dispose |
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| (verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: modify |
| (verb) make more specific | - |
| (verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate |
| (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, characterize |
| (verb) pronounce fit or able | - |
| (verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements | Synonyms: measure up |
| quantify | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: measure |
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| (verb) use as a quantifier | - |
| quarry | (verb) extract (something such as stones) from or as if from a quarry | - |
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| query | (verb) pose a question | Synonyms: question |
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| rally | (verb) return to a former condition | Synonyms: rebound |
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| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
| (verb) call to arms; of military personnel | Synonyms: call up, mobilise, mobilize |
| (verb) gather | Synonyms: beat up, drum up |
| (verb) gather or bring together | Synonyms: come up, muster, muster up, summon |
| ramify | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, separate |
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| (verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: branch |
| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: complexify |
| rarefy | (verb) weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | Synonyms: attenuate |
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| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: sublimate, subtilize |
| (verb) lessen the density or solidity of | - |
| rarify | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, refine |
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| ratify | (verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation | Synonyms: sign |
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| ray | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: irradiate |
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| (verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: radiate |
| (verb) emit as rays | - |
| ready | (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, prepare, set, set up |
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| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, prepare |
| rebury | (verb) bury again | - |
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| reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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| recopy | (verb) copy again | - |
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| rectify | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, remediate, remedy, repair |
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| (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, right |
| (verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: refine |
| (verb) convert into direct current | - |
| (verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, reform, regenerate |
| (verb) determine the length of | - |
| redeploy | (verb) deploy anew | - |
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| reify | (verb) consider an abstract concept to be real | - |
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| relay | (verb) pass along | - |
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| (verb) control or operate by relay | - |
| rely | (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, look, reckon, swear |
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| remarry | (verb) marry, not for the first time | - |
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| remedy | (verb) provide relief for | Synonyms: relieve |
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| (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remediate, repair |
| repay | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, retort, return, riposte |
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| (verb) pay back | Synonyms: give back, refund, return |
| (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: requite |
| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, reward |
| replay | (verb) play again | - |
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| (verb) repeat a game against the same opponent | - |
| (verb) play (a melody) again | - |
| (verb) reproduce (a recording) on a recorder | Synonyms: play back |
| reply | (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: answer, respond |
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| retry | (verb) hear or try a court case anew | Synonyms: rehear |
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| reunify | (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunite |
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| revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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| rigidify | (verb) become rigid | - |
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| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, petrify |
| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| rubify | (verb) make ruby red | - |
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| saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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| (verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
| sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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| (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
| (verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
| saponify | (verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali | - |
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| (verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali | - |
| sashay | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
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| (verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
| (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |