| conjoin | (verb) make contact or come together | Synonyms: join |
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| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| conjugate | (verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
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| (verb) undergo conjugation | - |
| (verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
| conjure | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conspire, machinate |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, entreat, press |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| conk | (verb) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain | Synonyms: faint, pass out, swoon |
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| (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, choke, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| (verb) hit, especially on the head | - |
| (verb) come to a stop | Synonyms: stall |
| conn | (verb) conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane | - |
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| connect | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, link, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) join for the purpose of communication | - |
| (verb) join by means of communication equipment | - |
| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: link, link up, tie |
| (verb) land on or hit solidly | - |
| (verb) plug into an outlet | Synonyms: plug in, plug into |
| (verb) hit or play a ball successfully | - |
| (verb) establish communication with someone | Synonyms: get in touch, touch base |
| (verb) establish a rapport or relationship | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: join, link, link up, unite |
| (verb) be scheduled so as to provide continuing service, as in transportation | - |
| connive | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: intrigue, scheme |
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| (verb) encourage or assent to illegally or criminally | - |
| connote | (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: predicate |
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| (verb) express or state indirectly | Synonyms: imply |
| conquer | (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: stamp down, subdue, suppress |
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| (verb) overcome by conquest | - |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize |
| conscript | (verb) enroll into service compulsorily | - |
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| consecrate | (verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, hallow, sanctify |
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| (verb) dedicate to a deity by a vow | Synonyms: vow |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) appoint to a clerical posts | Synonyms: ordain, order, ordinate |
| consent | (verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: accept, go for |
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| conserve | (verb) preserve with sugar | - |
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| (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: economise, economize, husband |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: keep up, maintain, preserve |
| (verb) keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change | - |
| consider | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: reckon, regard, see, view |
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| (verb) take into consideration for exemplifying purposes | Synonyms: deal, look at, take |
| (verb) regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem | - |
| (verb) judge or regard; look upon; judge | Synonyms: believe, conceive, think |
| (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: count, weigh |
| (verb) think about carefully; weigh | Synonyms: debate, deliberate, moot, turn over |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: study |
| (verb) look at attentively | Synonyms: regard |
| (verb) look at carefully; study mentally | Synonyms: look at, view |
| consign | (verb) give over to another for care or safekeeping | Synonyms: charge |
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| (verb) commit forever; commit irrevocably | - |
| (verb) send to an address | - |
| consist | (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: dwell, lie, lie in |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: comprise |
| (verb) be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous | - |
| (verb) have its essential character; be comprised or contained in; be embodied in | - |
| consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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| console | (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: comfort, solace, soothe |
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| consolidate | (verb) unite into one | - |
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| (verb) bring together into a single whole or system | - |
| (verb) make firm or secure; strengthen | - |
| (verb) make or form into a solid or hardened mass | - |
| (verb) form into a solid mass or whole | - |
| consonate | (verb) sound in sympathy | - |
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| consort | (verb) keep company | Synonyms: run |
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| (verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, associate, assort |
| (verb) go together | Synonyms: accord, agree, concord, fit in, harmonise, harmonize |
| conspire | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, machinate |
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| (verb) act in unison or agreement and in secret towards a deceitful or illegal purpose | Synonyms: collude |
| constellate | (verb) form a constellation or cluster | - |
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| (verb) come together as in a cluster or flock | Synonyms: clump, cluster, flock |
| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: dot, stud |
| consternate | (verb) fill with anxiety, dread, dismay, or confusion | - |
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| constipate | (verb) cause to be constipated | Synonyms: bind |
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| (verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog | Synonyms: clog |
| constitute | (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: establish, found, institute, plant |
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| (verb) create and charge with a task or function | Synonyms: appoint, name, nominate |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, make up, represent |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: form, make |
| constitutionalise | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalize |
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| constitutionalize | (verb) incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional | Synonyms: constitutionalise |
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| (verb) take a walk for one's health or to aid digestion, as after a meal | - |
| (verb) provide with a constitution, as of a country | - |
| constrain | (verb) severely restrict in scope or extent | Synonyms: stiffen, tighten, tighten up |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, hold, restrain |
| (verb) compel to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: enforce, impose |
| constrict | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constringe, narrow |
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| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, contract, press, squeeze |
| constringe | (verb) become tight or as if tight | Synonyms: constrict, narrow |
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| construct | (verb) reassemble mentally | Synonyms: reconstruct, retrace |
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| (verb) draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, make |
| (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: fabricate, manufacture |
| (verb) create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts | - |
| (verb) create by linking linguistic units | - |
| construe | (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: interpret, see |
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| consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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| (verb) unite in one common substance | - |
| consult | (verb) advise professionally | - |
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| (verb) seek information from | Synonyms: look up, refer |
| (verb) get or ask advice from | Synonyms: confer with |
| (verb) have a conference in order to talk something over | Synonyms: confab, confabulate, confer |
| consume | (verb) engage fully | - |
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| (verb) serve oneself to, or consume regularly | Synonyms: have, ingest, take, take in |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: squander, ware, waste |
| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: demolish, devour, down, go through |
| (verb) destroy completely | - |
| consummate | (verb) make perfect; bring to perfection | - |
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| (verb) fulfill sexually | - |
| contact | (verb) be in or establish communication with | Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach |
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| (verb) be in direct physical contact with; make contact | Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch |
| contain | (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, hold back, stop, turn back |
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| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, control, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: comprise, incorporate |
| (verb) be divisible by | - |
| (verb) contain or hold; have within | Synonyms: bear, carry, hold |
| (verb) be capable of holding or containing | Synonyms: hold, take |
| containerise | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerize |
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| containerize | (verb) package in a container | Synonyms: containerise |
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| contaminate | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: foul, pollute |
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| (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material | - |
| contemn | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: despise, disdain, scorn |
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| contemplate | (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: meditate, study |
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| (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
| (verb) consider as a possibility | - |
| (verb) look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought | - |
| contemporise | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporize, synchronise, synchronize |
| contemporize | (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
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| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, synchronise, synchronize |
| contend | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contest, repugn |
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| (verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, debate, fence |
| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: compete, vie |
| (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: fight, struggle |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
| content | (verb) satisfy in a limited way | - |
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| (verb) make content | - |
| contest | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, repugn |
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| continue | (verb) exist over a prolonged period of time | - |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: go forward, move ahead, proceed |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: cover, extend |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on |
| (verb) continue after an interruption | - |
| (verb) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop | Synonyms: persist in |
| contort | (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: deform, distort, wring |
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| contour | (verb) form the contours of | - |
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| contract | (verb) be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness | Synonyms: get, take |
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| (verb) make or become more narrow or restricted | Synonyms: narrow |
| (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: shrink |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
| (verb) compress or concentrate | Synonyms: concentrate, condense |
| (verb) enter into a contractual arrangement | Synonyms: undertake |
| (verb) make smaller | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, press, squeeze |
| (verb) engage by written agreement | Synonyms: sign, sign on, sign up |
| contradance | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contredanse, country-dance |
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| contradict | (verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: negate |
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| (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contravene, negate |
| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: controvert, oppose |
| (verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, negate |
| contradistinguish | (verb) distinguish by contrasting qualities | - |
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| contraindicate | (verb) make a treatment inadvisable | - |
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| contrast | (verb) put in opposition to show or emphasize differences | - |
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| (verb) to show differences when compared; be different | Synonyms: counterpoint |
| contravene | (verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, negate |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, infringe, run afoul |
| contredanse | (verb) perform a contradance | Synonyms: contra danse, contradance, country-dance |
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| contribute | (verb) contribute to some cause | Synonyms: chip in, give, kick in |
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| (verb) bestow a quality on | Synonyms: add, bestow, bring, impart, lend |
| (verb) provide | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) be conducive to | Synonyms: conduce, lead |
| contrive | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: devise, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: design, plan, project |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, project, throw |
| control | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: master |
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| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, ensure, insure, see, see to it |
| (verb) verify by using a duplicate register for comparison | - |
| (verb) handle and cause to function | Synonyms: operate |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: keep in line, manipulate |
| (verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: command |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits | Synonyms: check, contain, curb, hold, hold in, moderate |
| (verb) check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard | Synonyms: verify |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: restrict |
| controvert | (verb) prove to be false or incorrect | Synonyms: rebut, refute |
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| (verb) be resistant to | Synonyms: contradict, oppose |
| contuse | (verb) injure the underlying soft tissue or bone of | Synonyms: bruise |
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| convalesce | (verb) get over an illness or shock | Synonyms: recover, recuperate |
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| convect | (verb) circulate hot air by convection | - |
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| convene | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convoke |
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| (verb) meet formally | - |
| conventionalise | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalize |
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| conventionalize | (verb) make conventional or adapt to conventions | Synonyms: conventionalise |
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| (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: stylise, stylize |
| converge | (verb) come together so as to form a single product | - |
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| (verb) move or draw together at a certain location | - |
| (verb) be adjacent or come together | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit | - |
| converse | (verb) carry on a conversation | Synonyms: discourse |
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| convert | (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy | Synonyms: change over |
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| (verb) change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief | - |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, exchange |
| (verb) change the nature, purpose, or function of something | - |
| (verb) change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change | - |
| (verb) cause to adopt a new or different faith | - |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, exchange |
| (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convince, win over |
| (verb) score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone | - |
| convey | (verb) (of information) make known; pass on | - |
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| (verb) serve as a means for expressing something | Synonyms: carry, express |
| (verb) go or come after and bring or take back | Synonyms: bring, fetch, get |
| (verb) take something or somebody with oneself somewhere | Synonyms: bring, take |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, impart, transmit |
| (verb) transmit a title or property | - |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, transmit |
| convict | (verb) find or declare guilty | - |
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| convince | (verb) make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something | Synonyms: convert, win over |
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| convoke | (verb) call together | Synonyms: convene |
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| convolute | (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: pervert, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
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| (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolve |
| convolve | (verb) curl, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: convolute |
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| convoy | (verb) escort in transit | - |
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| convulse | (verb) be overcome with laughter | - |
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| (verb) make someone convulse with laughter | - |
| (verb) contract involuntarily, as in a spasm | - |
| (verb) cause to contract | - |
| (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: jactitate, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
| (verb) shake uncontrollably | - |
| coo | (verb) cry softly, as of pigeons | - |
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| (verb) speak softly or lovingly | - |
| cooccur | (verb) go with, fall together | Synonyms: co-occur, coincide |
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| cook | (verb) transform and make suitable for consumption by heating | - |
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| (verb) transform by heating | - |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: fix, make, prepare, ready |
| (verb) prepare a hot meal | - |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
| cool | (verb) loose heat | Synonyms: chill, cool down |
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| (verb) make cool or cooler | Synonyms: chill, cool down |
| (verb) lose intensity | Synonyms: cool down, cool off |
| cooper | (verb) make barrels and casks | - |
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| cooperate | (verb) work together on a common enterprise or project | Synonyms: collaborate, join forces |
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| coordinate | (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
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| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| cop | (verb) take into custody | Synonyms: apprehend, arrest, collar, nab, nail, pick up |
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| (verb) take by theft | Synonyms: glom, hook, knock off, snitch, thieve |
| cope | (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage |
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| copolymerise | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerize |
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| copolymerize | (verb) polymerize together | Synonyms: copolymerise |
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| copper | (verb) coat with a layer of copper | - |
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| copulate | (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair |
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| copy | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: imitate, simulate |
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| (verb) make a replica of | Synonyms: re-create, recreate |
| (verb) reproduce or make an exact copy of | Synonyms: replicate |
| (verb) copy down as is | - |
| copyedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyread, subedit |
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| copyread | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, subedit |
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| copyright | (verb) secure a copyright on a written work | - |
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| coquet | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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| coquette | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romance |
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