| describe | (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: discover, distinguish, identify, key, key out, name |
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| (verb) give a description of | Synonyms: depict, draw |
| (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, report |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, draw, line, trace |
| descry | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: espy, spot, spy |
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| desecrate | (verb) remove the consecration from a person or an object | Synonyms: deconsecrate, unhallow |
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| (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: outrage, profane, violate |
| desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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| desensitise | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
| desensitize | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
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| (verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
| desert | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desolate, forsake |
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| (verb) leave behind | - |
| (verb) desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | Synonyms: defect |
| deserve | (verb) be worthy or deserving | Synonyms: merit |
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| desex | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| desexualise | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualize |
| desexualize | (verb) make infertile | Synonyms: desex, desexualise, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex |
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| (verb) direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | Synonyms: desexualise |
| desiccate | (verb) lose water or moisture | Synonyms: dehydrate, dry up, exsiccate |
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| (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| (verb) remove water from | Synonyms: dehydrate |
| design | (verb) plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect | - |
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| (verb) intend or have as a purpose | - |
| (verb) create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner | - |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, plan, project |
| (verb) create designs | - |
| (verb) conceive or fashion in the mind; invent | - |
| designate | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: destine, intend, specify |
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| (verb) assign a name or title to | Synonyms: denominate |
| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: destine, doom, fate |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: indicate, point, show |
| (verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, delegate, depute |
| desire | (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: want |
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| (verb) express a desire for | - |
| (verb) expect and wish | Synonyms: hope, trust |
| desist | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: abstain, refrain |
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| desolate | (verb) reduce in population | Synonyms: depopulate |
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| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
| (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, forsake |
| desorb | (verb) go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed | - |
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| (verb) remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed | - |
| despair | (verb) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart | - |
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| despatch | (verb) send away towards a designated goal | Synonyms: dispatch, send off |
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| despise | (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, disdain, scorn |
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| despoil | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession | Synonyms: plunder, rape, spoil, violate |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
| despond | (verb) lose confidence or hope; become dejected | - |
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| desquamate | (verb) peel off in scales | Synonyms: peel off |
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| destabilise | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilize |
| destabilize | (verb) make unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
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| (verb) become unstable | Synonyms: destabilise |
| destain | (verb) remove stain from (a laboratory specimen) to enhance contrast | - |
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| destalinise | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinize |
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| destalinize | (verb) counteract the effects and policies of Stalinism | Synonyms: destalinise |
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| destine | (verb) design or destine | Synonyms: designate, intend, specify |
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| (verb) decree or designate beforehand | Synonyms: designate, doom, fate |
| destress | (verb) reduce the emphasis | Synonyms: de-emphasise, de-emphasize |
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| destroy | (verb) defeat soundly and humiliatingly | Synonyms: demolish |
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| (verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably | Synonyms: ruin |
| (verb) put (an animal) to death | Synonyms: put down |
| (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destruct |
| destruct | (verb) do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of | Synonyms: destroy |
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| (verb) destroy (one's own missile or rocket) | - |
| desulfurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulphurize |
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| desulphurize | (verb) remove sulfur from | Synonyms: desulfurize |
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| desynchronise | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronize |
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| desynchronize | (verb) cause to become desynchronized; cause to occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: desynchronise |
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| detach | (verb) come to be detached | Synonyms: come away, come off |
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| (verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off | - |
| (verb) separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment | - |
| detail | (verb) assign to a specific task | - |
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| (verb) provide details for | - |
| detain | (verb) cause to be slowed down or delayed | Synonyms: delay, hold up |
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| (verb) stop or halt | Synonyms: delay, stay |
| (verb) deprive of freedom; take into confinement | Synonyms: confine |
| detect | (verb) discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of by perception with the eyes | Synonyms: discover, find, notice, observe |
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| deter | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: dissuade |
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| (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to | Synonyms: discourage |
| deterge | (verb) wipe away; to wash off or out, cleanse; chiefly in medical use: to clear away foul matter from the body | - |
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| deteriorate | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, devolve, drop |
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| (verb) become worse or disintegrate | - |
| determine | (verb) reach, make, or come to a decision about something | Synonyms: decide, make up one's mind |
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| (verb) fix conclusively or authoritatively | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: influence, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
| (verb) fix in scope; fix the boundaries of | - |
| (verb) establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study | Synonyms: ascertain, find, find out |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, find out, learn, see, watch |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, fix, limit, set, specify |
| (verb) settle conclusively; come to terms | Synonyms: settle, square off, square up |
| detest | (verb) dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards | Synonyms: hate |
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| dethaw | (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dissolve, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
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| dethrone | (verb) remove a monarch from the throne | - |
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| detick | (verb) free (a pet) of ticks | - |
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| detonate | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy | Synonyms: blow up, explode, set off |
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| (verb) burst and release energy as through a violent chemical or physical reaction | Synonyms: blow up, explode |
| detour | (verb) travel via a detour | - |
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| detox | (verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detoxify |
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| detoxicate | (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxify |
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| detoxify | (verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detox |
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| (verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxicate |
| detract | (verb) take away a part from; diminish | Synonyms: take away |
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| detrain | (verb) leave a train | - |
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| detransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, intransitivise, intransitivize |
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| detribalise | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalize |
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| detribalize | (verb) cause members of a tribe to lose their cultural identity | Synonyms: detribalise |
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| detusk | (verb) remove the tusks of animals | Synonyms: tusk |
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| devaluate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devalue, undervalue |
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| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devalue |
| devalue | (verb) lower the value or quality of | - |
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| (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: depreciate, devaluate, undervalue |
| (verb) remove the value from; deprive of its value | Synonyms: devaluate |
| devastate | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge, waste |
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| (verb) overwhelm or overpower | - |
| devein | (verb) remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp) | - |
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| develop | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, get, grow, produce |
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| (verb) grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment | - |
| (verb) cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development | Synonyms: make grow |
| (verb) happen | Synonyms: break, recrudesce |
| (verb) change the use of and make available or usable | Synonyms: build up |
| (verb) be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest | - |
| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, evolve |
| (verb) become technologically advanced | Synonyms: modernise, modernize |
| (verb) grow emotionally or mature | Synonyms: grow |
| (verb) expand in the form of a series | - |
| (verb) elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme | - |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: educate, prepare, train |
| (verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: explicate, formulate |
| (verb) move into a strategically more advantageous position | - |
| (verb) move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions | - |
| (verb) superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry | - |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: evolve, germinate |
| (verb) make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation | - |
| (verb) generate gradually | - |
| (verb) make visible by means of chemical solutions | - |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, grow, originate, rise, spring up, uprise |
| deviate | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
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| (verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
| devil | (verb) coat or stuff with a spicy paste | - |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, rile, vex |
| devilise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilize, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devilize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, diabolise, diabolize |
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| devise | (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, excogitate, forge, formulate, invent |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: get up, machinate, organise, organize, prepare |
| (verb) give by will, especially real property | - |
| devitalise | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalize |
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| devitalize | (verb) sap of life or energy | Synonyms: devitalise |
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| devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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| (verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
| devoice | (verb) utter with tense vocal chords | - |
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| devolve | (verb) grow progressively worse | Synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop |
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| (verb) be inherited by | Synonyms: fall, pass, return |
| (verb) pass on or delegate to another | - |
| devote | (verb) dedicate | Synonyms: give, pay |
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| (verb) give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause | Synonyms: commit, consecrate, dedicate, give |
| (verb) set aside or apart for a specific purpose or use | - |
| devour | (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: guttle, pig, raven |
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| (verb) eat up completely, as with great appetite | Synonyms: consume, demolish, down, go through |
| (verb) to consume | - |
| (verb) enjoy avidly | - |
| diabolise | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolize |
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| diabolize | (verb) turn into a devil or make devilish | Synonyms: devilise, devilize, diabolise |
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| diagnose | (verb) determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) subject to a medical analysis | - |
| diagonalise | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalize |
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| diagonalize | (verb) transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix | Synonyms: diagonalise |
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| diagram | (verb) make a schematic or technical drawing that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed | Synonyms: plot |
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| dial | (verb) choose by means of a dial | - |
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| (verb) operate a dial to select a telephone number | - |
| dialyse | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyze |
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| dialyze | (verb) separate by dialysis | Synonyms: dialyse |
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| diazotize | (verb) convert (an amine) into a diazo compound | - |
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| dibble | (verb) plant with a wooden hand tool | - |
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| (verb) make a hole with a wooden hand tool | - |
| dice | (verb) play dice | - |
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| (verb) cut into cubes | Synonyms: cube |
| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| dichotomize | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomise |
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| dicker | (verb) negotiate the terms of an exchange | Synonyms: bargain |
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| dictate | (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording | - |
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| (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: order, prescribe |
| (verb) rule as a dictator | - |
| didder | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: shake |
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| diddle | (verb) manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination | Synonyms: fiddle, play, toy |
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| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| die | (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, conk, croak, decease, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
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| (verb) disappear or come to an end | - |
| (verb) suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense) | - |
| (verb) stop operating or functioning | Synonyms: break, break down, conk out, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad |
| (verb) lose sparkle or bouquet | Synonyms: become flat, pall |
| (verb) to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player | - |
| (verb) cut or shape with a die | Synonyms: die out |
| (verb) be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame | - |
| (verb) languish as with love or desire | - |
| (verb) feel indifferent towards | - |
| (verb) suffer or face the pain of death | - |
| diet | (verb) eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight | - |
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| (verb) follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons | - |
| differ | (verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: disagree, dissent, take issue |
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| (verb) be different | - |
| differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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| (verb) become different during development | - |
| (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
| (verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
| (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |