| comb | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb out, disentangle |
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| (verb) search thoroughly | Synonyms: ransack |
| (verb) straighten with a comb | - |
| combat | (verb) battle or contend against in or as if in a battle | Synonyms: battle |
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| combine | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: compound |
| (verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: aggregate |
| (verb) add together from different sources | - |
| (verb) join for a common purpose or in a common action | - |
| (verb) have or possess in combination | Synonyms: unite |
| combust | (verb) undergo combustion | Synonyms: burn |
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| (verb) get very angry and fly into a rage | Synonyms: blow a fuse, blow one's stack, blow up, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, fly off the handle, go ballistic, have a fit, have kittens, hit the ceiling, hit the roof, lose one's temper, throw a fit |
| (verb) cause to become violent or angry | - |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire |
| (verb) cause to burn or combust | Synonyms: burn |
| come | (verb) come to pass; arrive, as in due course | - |
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| (verb) be found or available | - |
| (verb) reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position | - |
| (verb) happen as a result | - |
| (verb) have a certain priority | - |
| (verb) come to one's mind; suggest itself | Synonyms: occur |
| (verb) move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody | Synonyms: come up |
| (verb) be received | Synonyms: come in |
| (verb) cover a certain distance | - |
| (verb) reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress | Synonyms: arrive, get |
| (verb) experience orgasm | - |
| (verb) come under, be classified or included | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) proceed or get along | Synonyms: do, fare, get along, make out |
| (verb) extend or reach | - |
| (verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: follow |
| (verb) exist or occur in a certain point in a series | - |
| (verb) be a native of | Synonyms: hail |
| (verb) to measure up to in kind or quality | Synonyms: add up, amount |
| (verb) add up in number or quantity | Synonyms: add up, amount, number, total |
| (verb) come forth | Synonyms: issue forth |
| (verb) come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example | Synonyms: derive, descend |
| comfit | (verb) make into a confection | Synonyms: confect, confection |
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| comfort | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: ease |
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| (verb) give moral or emotional strength to | Synonyms: console, solace, soothe |
| command | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: require |
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| (verb) be in command of | - |
| (verb) demand as one's due | - |
| (verb) exercise authoritative control or power over | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) look down on | Synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop |
| commandeer | (verb) take arbitrarily or by force | Synonyms: highjack, hijack, pirate |
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| commemorate | (verb) call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony | Synonyms: remember |
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| (verb) be or provide a memorial to a person or an event | Synonyms: immortalise, immortalize, memorialise, memorialize |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: mark |
| commence | (verb) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action | Synonyms: begin, get, get down, set about, set out, start, start out |
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| (verb) set in motion, cause to start | Synonyms: begin, lead off, start |
| (verb) get off the ground | Synonyms: embark on, start, start up |
| commend | (verb) express approbation of | - |
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| (verb) mention as by way of greeting or to indicate friendship | Synonyms: remember |
| (verb) express a good opinion of | Synonyms: recommend |
| (verb) give to in charge | - |
| (verb) present as worthy of regard, kindness, or confidence | - |
| comment | (verb) make or write a comment on | Synonyms: notice, point out, remark |
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| (verb) provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases | Synonyms: annotate, gloss |
| (verb) explain or interpret something | - |
| commentate | (verb) serve as a commentator, as in sportscasting | - |
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| (verb) make a commentary on | - |
| commercialise | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialize, market |
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| commercialize | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, market |
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| (verb) exploit for maximal profit, usually by sacrificing quality | - |
| comminate | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize, execrate |
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| commingle | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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| (verb) mix or blend | - |
| comminute | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, crunch, grind, mash |
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| commiserate | (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize |
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| commission | (verb) charge with a task | - |
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| (verb) put into commission; equip for service; of ships | - |
| (verb) place an order for | - |
| commit | (verb) make a set of changes permanent | - |
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| (verb) transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved | - |
| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: consecrate, dedicate, devote, give |
| (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: confide, entrust, intrust, trust |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, institutionalise, institutionalize, send |
| (verb) make an investment | Synonyms: invest, place, put |
| (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: perpetrate, pull |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: practice |
| commix | (verb) to bring or combine together or with something else | Synonyms: amalgamate, mingle, mix, unify |
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| commove | (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, disturb, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, excite, rouse, turn on |
| communalise | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalize |
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| communalize | (verb) make something the property of the commune or community | Synonyms: communalise |
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| commune | (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: communicate |
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| (verb) communicate intimately with; be in a state of heightened, intimate receptivity | - |
| communicate | (verb) transmit thoughts or feelings | Synonyms: intercommunicate |
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| (verb) transmit information | Synonyms: pass, pass along, pass on, put across |
| (verb) be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas | - |
| (verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church | Synonyms: commune |
| (verb) administer Communion; in church | - |
| (verb) join or connect | - |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: convey, transmit |
| communise | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communize |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communize |
| communize | (verb) make into property owned by the state | Synonyms: communise |
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| (verb) make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles | Synonyms: bolshevise, bolshevize, communise |
| commutate | (verb) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current | - |
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| commute | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: permute, transpose |
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| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, convert, exchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: transpose |
| (verb) travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home | - |
| compact | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compress, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, pack, wad |
| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compress, pack together |
| (verb) have the property of being packable or of compacting easily | Synonyms: pack |
| companion | (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, company, keep company |
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| company | (verb) be a companion to somebody | Synonyms: accompany, companion, keep company |
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| compare | (verb) examine and note the similarities or differences of | - |
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| (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: equate, liken |
| (verb) to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb | - |
| (verb) be comparable | - |
| compart | (verb) lay out in parts according to a plan | - |
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| compartmentalise | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalize, cut up |
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| compartmentalize | (verb) separate into isolated compartments or categories | Synonyms: compartmentalise, cut up |
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| compass | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: circumnavigate |
| (verb) bring about; accomplish | - |
| compassionate | (verb) share the suffering of | Synonyms: condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with |
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| compel | (verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: obligate, oblige |
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| (verb) necessitate or exact | - |
| compensate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: recompense, remunerate |
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| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: indemnify, recompense, repair |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: make up, pay, pay off |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: correct, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: cover, overcompensate |
| compere | (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: emcee |
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| compete | (verb) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others | Synonyms: contend, vie |
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| compile | (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compose |
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| (verb) use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed | - |
| (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: accumulate, amass, collect, hoard, pile up, roll up |
| complain | (verb) express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness | Synonyms: kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off |
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| (verb) make a formal accusation; bring a formal charge | - |
| complect | (verb) be interwoven or interconnected | Synonyms: interconnect, interlink |
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| complement | (verb) make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to | - |
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| complete | (verb) bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements | - |
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| (verb) come or bring to a finish or an end | Synonyms: finish |
| (verb) write all the required information onto a form | Synonyms: fill in, fill out, make out |
| (verb) complete a pass | Synonyms: nail |
| (verb) complete or carry out | Synonyms: discharge, dispatch |
| complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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| (verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
| complexion | (verb) give a certain color to | - |
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| complicate | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: perplex |
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| (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: elaborate, rarify, refine |
| compliment | (verb) say something to someone that expresses praise | Synonyms: congratulate |
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| (verb) express respect or esteem for | - |
| complot | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, conjure, conspire, machinate |
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| comply | (verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, follow |
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| comport | (verb) behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself | Synonyms: acquit, act, bear, behave, carry, conduct, deport, do |
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| (verb) behave well or properly | Synonyms: behave |
| compose | (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: draw up, frame |
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| (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: indite, pen, write |
| (verb) write music | Synonyms: write |
| (verb) put together out of existing material | Synonyms: compile |
| (verb) calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet | - |
| (verb) form the substance of | - |
| compost | (verb) convert to compost | - |
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| compound | (verb) put or add together | Synonyms: combine |
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| (verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: deepen, heighten, intensify |
| (verb) combine so as to form a whole; mix | Synonyms: combine |
| (verb) create by mixing or combining | - |
| (verb) calculate principal and interest | - |
| comprehend | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: perceive |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: cover, embrace, encompass |
| compress | (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, constrict, contract, press, squeeze |
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| (verb) make more compact by or as if by pressing | Synonyms: compact, pack together |
| comprise | (verb) include or contain; have as a component | Synonyms: contain, incorporate |
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| (verb) be composed of | Synonyms: consist |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, constitute, make up, represent |
| compromise | (verb) settle by concession | - |
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| (verb) make a compromise; arrive at a compromise | - |
| (verb) expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute | - |
| compute | (verb) make a mathematical calculation or computation | Synonyms: calculate, cipher, cypher, figure, reckon, work out |
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| computerise | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerize, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerize |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerize |
| computerize | (verb) control a function, process, or creation by a computer | Synonyms: computerise, cybernate |
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| (verb) store in a computer | Synonyms: computerise |
| (verb) provide with computers | Synonyms: computerise |