| dissolve | (verb) pass into a solution | - |
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| (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, resolve |
| (verb) come to an end | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) grow less and less substantial until it disappears | Synonyms: fade away, fade out |
| (verb) become or cause to become soft or liquid | Synonyms: dethaw, melt, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw |
| (verb) bring the association of to an end or cause to break up | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) declare void | Synonyms: dismiss |
| (verb) cause to fade away | - |
| (verb) lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) cause to lose control emotionally | - |
| (verb) stop functioning or cohering as a unit | Synonyms: disband |
| dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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| (verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
| dissuade | (verb) turn away from by persuasion | Synonyms: deter |
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| distance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: outdistance, outstrip |
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| (verb) keep at a distance | - |
| distemper | (verb) paint with distemper | - |
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| distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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| (verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
| (verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
| distil | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distill |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, extract |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distill |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distill, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| distill | (verb) give off (a liquid) | Synonyms: distil |
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| (verb) undergo the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil |
| (verb) extract by the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, extract |
| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, make pure, purify, sublimate |
| (verb) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops | Synonyms: condense, distil |
| distinguish | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| (verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, identify, key, key out, name |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, mark |
| (verb) make conspicuous or noteworthy | Synonyms: signalise, signalize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, make out, pick out, recognise, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| distort | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress | Synonyms: deform, strain |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: falsify, garble, warp |
| (verb) affect as in thought or feeling | Synonyms: color, colour, tinge |
| (verb) twist and press out of shape | Synonyms: contort, deform, wring |
| (verb) form into a spiral shape | Synonyms: twine, twist |
| distract | (verb) draw someone's attention away from something | Synonyms: deflect |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, perturb, trouble, unhinge |
| distrain | (verb) confiscate by distress | - |
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| (verb) levy a distress on | - |
| (verb) legally take something in place of a debt payment | - |
| distress | (verb) cause mental pain to | - |
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| (verb) bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship | Synonyms: straiten |
| distribute | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, pass around, propagate, spread |
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| (verb) to arrange in a systematic order | Synonyms: stagger |
| (verb) distribute or disperse widely | Synonyms: spread |
| (verb) cause to be distributed | Synonyms: circulate, pass around, pass on |
| (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, dole out, lot, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
| (verb) give to several people | Synonyms: give out, hand out, pass out |
| (verb) release | - |
| (verb) be mathematically distributive | - |
| (verb) be distributed or spread, as in statistical analyses | - |
| (verb) spread throughout a given area | - |
| district | (verb) regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns | Synonyms: zone |
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| distrust | (verb) regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in | Synonyms: mistrust, suspect |
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| disturb | (verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: interrupt |
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| (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring | - |
| (verb) tamper with | Synonyms: touch |
| (verb) change the arrangement or position of | Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: trouble, upset |
| disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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| disunite | (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: divide, part, separate |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, divorce |
| ditch | (verb) crash or crash-land | - |
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| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: trench |
| (verb) make an emergency landing on water | - |
| (verb) forsake | - |
| (verb) throw away | Synonyms: chuck |
| (verb) sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly | Synonyms: dump |
| dither | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: flap, pother |
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| (verb) act nervously; be undecided; be uncertain | - |
| ditto | (verb) repeat an action or statement | - |
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| divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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| divaricate | (verb) spread apart | - |
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| (verb) branch off | - |
| dive | (verb) drop steeply | Synonyms: plunge, plunk |
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| (verb) swim under water | - |
| (verb) plunge into water | - |
| diverge | (verb) move or draw apart | - |
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| (verb) extend in a different direction | - |
| (verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, deviate, vary |
| (verb) have no limits as a mathematical series | - |
| diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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| (verb) make (more) diverse | - |
| (verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
| divert | (verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: deviate |
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| (verb) send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one | - |
| (verb) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions | Synonyms: hive off |
| (verb) occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion | Synonyms: amuse, disport |
| divest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: disinvest |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, strip |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: disinvest |
| divide | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: fraction |
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| (verb) move or break apart | Synonyms: part, separate |
| (verb) force, take, or pull apart | Synonyms: disunite, part, separate |
| (verb) make a division or separation | Synonyms: separate |
| (verb) separate into parts or portions | Synonyms: carve up, dissever, separate, split, split up |
| (verb) act as a barrier between; stand between | Synonyms: separate |
| divine | (verb) search by divining, as if with a rod | - |
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| (verb) perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers | - |
| divorce | (verb) get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage | Synonyms: split up |
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| (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite |
| divulge | (verb) make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret | Synonyms: break, bring out, disclose, discover, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
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| dizen | (verb) dress up garishly and tastelessly | Synonyms: bedizen |
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| dizzy | (verb) make dizzy or giddy | - |
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