| chafe | (verb) warm by rubbing, as with the hands | - |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: excoriate |
| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: fray, fret, rub, scratch |
| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| (verb) feel extreme irritation or anger | - |
| (verb) become or make sore by or as if by rubbing | Synonyms: fret, gall |
| chaff | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, jolly, josh, kid |
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| chaffer | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.) | Synonyms: haggle, higgle, huckster |
| chagrin | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, humble, humiliate, mortify |
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| chain | (verb) fasten or secure with chains | - |
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| (verb) connect or arrange into a chain by linking | - |
| chair | (verb) preside over | Synonyms: lead, moderate |
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| (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chairman |
| chairman | (verb) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university | Synonyms: chair |
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| chalk | (verb) write, draw, or trace with chalk | - |
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| challenge | (verb) issue a challenge to | - |
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| (verb) take exception to | Synonyms: dispute, gainsay |
| (verb) raise a formal objection in a court of law | Synonyms: take exception |
| (verb) ask for identification | - |
| chamber | (verb) place in a chamber | - |
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| chamfer | (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chase, furrow |
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| (verb) cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel | Synonyms: bevel |
| champ | (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: chomp |
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| (verb) chafe at the bit, like horses | - |
| champion | (verb) protect or fight for as a champion | Synonyms: defend |
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| chance | (verb) come upon, as if by accident; meet with | Synonyms: bump, encounter, find, happen |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| (verb) be the case by chance | - |
| chandelle | (verb) climb suddenly and steeply | - |
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| change | (verb) undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature | - |
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| (verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, modify |
| (verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: alter, vary |
| (verb) change clothes; put on different clothes | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: commute, convert, exchange |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: shift, switch |
| (verb) remove or replace the coverings of | - |
| (verb) become deeper in tone | Synonyms: deepen |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: exchange, interchange |
| channel | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) direct the flow of | - |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, conduct, convey, impart, transmit |
| channelise | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelize |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| channelize | (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, transfer, transmit, transport |
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| (verb) cause to form a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) make a channel for; provide with a channel | Synonyms: channelise |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| chant | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: cantillate, intonate, intone |
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| (verb) utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically | Synonyms: intone, tone |
| chap | (verb) crack due to dehydration | - |
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| chaperon | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperone |
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| chaperone | (verb) accompany as a chaperone | Synonyms: chaperon |
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| char | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, scorch, sear |
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| (verb) burn to charcoal | Synonyms: coal |
| character | (verb) engrave or inscribe characters on | - |
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| characterise | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterize, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterize |
| characterize | (verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, qualify |
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| (verb) be characteristic of | Synonyms: characterise |
| charcoal | (verb) draw, trace, or represent with charcoal | - |
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| charge | (verb) energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge | - |
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| (verb) cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on | - |
| (verb) saturate | - |
| (verb) attribute responsibility to | Synonyms: blame |
| (verb) set or ask for a certain price | - |
| (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: file, lodge |
| (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, saddle |
| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: accuse |
| (verb) make an accusatory claim | - |
| (verb) instruct or command with authority | - |
| (verb) instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence | - |
| (verb) to make a rush at or sudden attack upon, as in battle | Synonyms: bear down |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: level, point |
| (verb) fill or load to capacity | - |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: load |
| (verb) place a heraldic bearing on | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, shoot, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) lie down on command, of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) pay with a credit card; pay with plastic money; postpone payment by recording a purchase as a debt | - |
| (verb) enter a certain amount as a charge | - |
| (verb) demand payment | Synonyms: bill |
| (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: consign |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: commit, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to | Synonyms: appoint |
| chariot | (verb) ride in a chariot | - |
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| (verb) transport in a chariot | - |
| charm | (verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: influence, tempt |
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| (verb) protect through supernatural powers or charms | - |
| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
| (verb) control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft | Synonyms: becharm |
| chart | (verb) plan in detail | - |
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| (verb) make a chart of | - |
| (verb) represent by means of a graph | Synonyms: graph |
| charter | (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: engage, hire, lease, rent, take |
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| (verb) grant a charter to | - |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: hire, lease, rent |
| chase | (verb) cut a groove into | - |
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| (verb) cut a furrow into a columns | Synonyms: chamfer, furrow |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail |
| (verb) pursue someone sexually or romantically | Synonyms: chase after |
| chasse | (verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: sashay |
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| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| chastise | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, correct, objurgate |
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| chat | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| chatter | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
| (verb) make noise as if chattering away | - |
| (verb) cut unevenly with a chattering tool | - |
| (verb) click repeatedly or uncontrollably | Synonyms: click |
| chaturbate | (verb) to masturbate while chatting online | - |
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| chauffeur | (verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
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| chaw | (verb) chew without swallowing | - |
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| cheapen | (verb) lower the grade of something; reduce its worth | Synonyms: degrade |
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| cheat | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: chisel, rip off |
| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: chisel |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat on, cuckold, wander |
| check | (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: delay, retard |
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| (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only | Synonyms: break, crack |
| (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: chink |
| (verb) arrest the motion (of something) abruptly | - |
| (verb) examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition | Synonyms: check into, check out, check over, check up on, go over, look into, suss out |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check off, mark, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, control, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by consulting a source or authority | - |
| (verb) write out a check on a bank account | - |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, determine, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) place into check | - |
| (verb) decline to initiate betting | - |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, contain, hold back, stop, turn back |
| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: checker, chequer |
| (verb) stop in a chase especially when scent is lost | - |
| (verb) abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey | - |
| (verb) stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution | - |
| (verb) hand over something to somebody as for temporary safekeeping | - |
| (verb) consign for shipment on a vehicle | - |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: condition, discipline, train |
| (verb) make an examination or investigation | - |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: contain, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) block or impede (a player from the opposing team) in ice hockey | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally |
| (verb) be verified or confirmed; pass inspection | Synonyms: check out |
| checker | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: chequer |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, chequer |
| checkmate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: mate |
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| checkrow | (verb) plant in checkrows | - |
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| cheek | (verb) speak impudently to | - |
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| cheep | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: chirp, chirrup, peep |
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| cheer | (verb) become cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, chirk up |
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| (verb) spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts | Synonyms: barrack, exhort, inspire, pep up, root on, urge, urge on |
| (verb) show approval or good wishes by shouting | - |
| (verb) cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful | Synonyms: cheer up, jolly along, jolly up |
| (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: embolden, hearten, recreate |
| cheerlead | (verb) act as a cheerleader in a sports event | - |
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| cheese | (verb) wind onto a cheese | - |
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| (verb) used in the imperative (get away, or stop it) | - |
| chelate | (verb) form a chelate, in chemistry | - |
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| chemisorb | (verb) take up a substance by chemisorption | - |
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| cheque | (verb) withdraw money by writing a check | Synonyms: check out |
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| chequer | (verb) variegate with different colors, shades, or patterns | Synonyms: checker |
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| (verb) mark into squares or draw squares on; draw crossed lines on | Synonyms: check, checker |
| cherish | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, hold dear, treasure |
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| chevvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chevy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chivvy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chew | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: jaw, manducate, masticate |
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| chicane | (verb) raise trivial objections | Synonyms: carp, cavil |
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| (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft |
| chickenfight | (verb) fight while sitting on somebody's shoulders | Synonyms: chicken-fight |
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| chide | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| childproof | (verb) make safe against children | Synonyms: child-proof |
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| chill | (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
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| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: cool, cool down |
| (verb) depress or discourage | - |
| chime | (verb) emit a sound | - |
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| chin | (verb) raise oneself while hanging from one's hands until one's chin is level with the support bar | Synonyms: chin up |
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| chine | (verb) cut through the backbone of an animal | - |
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| chink | (verb) make cracks or chinks in | Synonyms: check |
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| (verb) fill the chinks of, as with caulking | - |
| (verb) make or emit a high sound | Synonyms: clink, tink, tinkle |
| chip | (verb) break a small piece off from | Synonyms: break off, cut off, knap |
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| (verb) break off (a piece from a whole) | Synonyms: break away, break off, chip off, come off |
| (verb) form by chipping | - |
| (verb) cut a nick into | Synonyms: nick |
| (verb) play a chip shot | - |
| chirk | (verb) make a shrill creaking, squeaking, or noise, as of a door, mouse, or bird | - |
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| chiromance | (verb) divine by reading someone's palms | - |
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| chirp | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirrup, peep |
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| (verb) sing in modulation | Synonyms: tweedle |
| chirr | (verb) make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas | - |
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| chirrup | (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, peep |
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| chisel | (verb) carve with a chisel | - |
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| (verb) engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud | Synonyms: cheat |
| (verb) deprive somebody of something by deceit | Synonyms: cheat, rip off |
| chitchat | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| chitter | (verb) make high-pitched sounds, as of birds | Synonyms: twitter |
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| chivvy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chivy | (verb) annoy continually or chronically | Synonyms: beset, chevvy, chevy, chivvy, harass, harry, hassle, molest, plague, provoke |
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| chlorinate | (verb) disinfect with chlorine | - |
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| (verb) treat or combine with chlorine | - |
| chloroform | (verb) anesthetize with chloroform | - |
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| chock | (verb) support on chocks | - |
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| (verb) secure with chocks | - |
| choir | (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: chorus |
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| choke | (verb) breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion | - |
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| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: gag |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: gag, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing | Synonyms: strangle |
| (verb) reduce the air supply | Synonyms: throttle |
| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) become stultified, suppressed, or stifled | Synonyms: suffocate |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: fret, gag |
| (verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up, foul |
| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: scrag |
| (verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate |
| (verb) check or slow down the action or effect of | - |
| (verb) fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation | - |
| chomp | (verb) chew noisily or vigorously | Synonyms: champ |
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| chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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| choose | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: pick out, select, take |
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| (verb) see fit or proper to act in a certain way; decide to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: opt, prefer |
| chop | (verb) hit sharply | - |
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| (verb) cut with a hacking tool | Synonyms: hack |
| (verb) cut into pieces with repeated blows | Synonyms: chop up |
| (verb) strike sharply, as in some sports | - |
| (verb) form or shape by chopping | - |
| (verb) move suddenly | - |
| chord | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing | Synonyms: harmonise, harmonize |
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| (verb) play chords on (a stringed instrument) | - |
| choreograph | (verb) plan and oversee the development and details of | - |
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| (verb) compose a sequence of dance steps, often to music | - |
| chortle | (verb) laugh quietly or with restraint | Synonyms: chuckle, laugh softly |
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| chorus | (verb) utter in unison | - |
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| (verb) sing in a choir | Synonyms: choir |
| chouse | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, jockey, screw, shaft |
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| christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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| chrome | (verb) treat with a chromium compound | - |
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| (verb) plate with chromium | Synonyms: chromium-plate |
| chronicle | (verb) record in chronological order; make a historical record | - |
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| chronologise | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologize |
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| chronologize | (verb) establish the order in time of something | Synonyms: chronologise |
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