| eagle | (verb) shoot in two strokes under par | - |
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| (verb) shoot two strokes under par | Synonyms: double birdie |
| earmark | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, reserve, set aside |
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| earn | (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, gain, make, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
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| (verb) acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions | Synonyms: garner, win |
| earth | (verb) connect to the earth | - |
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| (verb) hide in the earth like a hunted animal | - |
| ease | (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: comfort |
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| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, facilitate |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, relieve, still |
| (verb) move gently or carefully | - |
| eat | (verb) cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid | Synonyms: corrode, rust |
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| (verb) take in solid food | - |
| (verb) eat a meal; take a meal | - |
| (verb) take in food; used of animals only | Synonyms: feed |
| (verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use, use up, wipe out |
| (verb) worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way | Synonyms: eat on |
| eavesdrop | (verb) listen without the speaker's knowledge | Synonyms: listen in |
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| ebb | (verb) fall away or decline | - |
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| (verb) hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb | - |
| (verb) flow back or recede | Synonyms: ebb away, ebb down, ebb off, ebb out |
| ebonise | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonize |
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| ebonize | (verb) stain black to make it look like ebony | Synonyms: ebonise |
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| echo | (verb) to say again or imitate | Synonyms: repeat |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring |
| (verb) bring to mind | Synonyms: recall |
| eclipse | (verb) cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention | Synonyms: occult |
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| (verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: dominate, overshadow |
| economise | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economize, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economize, save |
| economize | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, save |
| eddy | (verb) flow in a circular current, of liquids | Synonyms: purl, swirl, whirl, whirlpool |
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| edge | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, march |
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| (verb) provide with an edge | - |
| (verb) advance slowly, as if by inches | Synonyms: inch |
| (verb) provide with a border or edge | Synonyms: border |
| edify | (verb) make understand | Synonyms: enlighten |
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| edit | (verb) prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting | Synonyms: redact |
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| (verb) cut and assemble the components of | Synonyms: cut, edit out |
| (verb) cut or eliminate | Synonyms: blue-pencil, delete |
| (verb) supervise the publication of | - |
| editorialise | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialize |
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| editorialize | (verb) insert personal opinions into an objective statement | Synonyms: editorialise |
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| educate | (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, prepare, train |
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| (verb) give an education to | - |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, school, train |
| educe | (verb) develop or evolve from a latent or potential state | Synonyms: derive |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, elicit, evoke, extract |
| edulcorate | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, sweeten |
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| eff | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| efface | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory | Synonyms: obliterate |
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| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: erase, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| (verb) make inconspicuous | - |
| effect | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effectuate, set up |
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| (verb) act so as to bring into existence | - |
| effectuate | (verb) produce | Synonyms: effect, set up |
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| effeminise | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effeminize | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to | Synonyms: effeminise, feminise, feminize, womanize |
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| effervesce | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: fizz, foam, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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| effloresce | (verb) come into or as if into flower | Synonyms: burst forth |
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| (verb) assume crystalline form; become crystallized | Synonyms: crystalise, crystalize, crystallize |
| (verb) become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation | - |
| effuse | (verb) give out or emit (also metaphorically) | - |
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| (verb) flow or spill forth | Synonyms: flow out |
| (verb) pour out liberally | Synonyms: pour out |
| egest | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: eliminate, excrete, pass |
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| egg | (verb) coat with beaten egg | - |
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| (verb) throw eggs at | - |
| egotrip | (verb) act in a way that attracts attention | - |
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| egress | (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, emerge, go forth, issue |
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| ejaculate | (verb) eject semen | - |
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| (verb) utter impulsively | Synonyms: blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out |
| eject | (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, exhaust, expel, release |
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| (verb) cause to come out in a squirt | Synonyms: force out, squeeze out, squirt |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, exclude, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule | - |
| elaborate | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, rarify, refine |
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| (verb) work out in detail | Synonyms: work out |
| (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
| (verb) produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product | - |
| elapse | (verb) for time to move forward | Synonyms: glide by, go along, go by, lapse, pass, slide by, slip away, slip by |
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| elate | (verb) fill with high spirits; fill with optimism | Synonyms: intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift |
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| elbow | (verb) shove one's elbow into another person's ribs | - |
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| (verb) push one's way with the elbows | - |
| elect | (verb) choose | - |
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| (verb) select by a vote for an office or membership | - |
| electioneer | (verb) work actively for a political candidate or a party | - |
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| electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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| (verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
| (verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
| electrocute | (verb) kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair | Synonyms: fry |
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| (verb) kill by electric shock | - |
| electroplate | (verb) coat with metal by electrolysis | - |
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| elegise | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegize |
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| elegize | (verb) compose an elegy | Synonyms: elegise |
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| elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elocute | (verb) declaim in an elocutionary manner | - |
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| elongate | (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
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| elope | (verb) run away secretly with one's beloved | Synonyms: run off |
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| elucidate | (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, enlighten, illuminate, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
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| (verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clarify, clear up |
| elude | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, evade, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, evade |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: escape |
| elute | (verb) wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography | - |
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| emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
| email | (verb) communicate electronically on the computer | Synonyms: e-mail, netmail |
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| emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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| (verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
| emancipate | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: manumit |
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| (verb) give equal rights to; of women and minorities | Synonyms: liberate |
| emasculate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize |
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| (verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: castrate |
| embalm | (verb) preserve a dead body | - |
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| embank | (verb) enclose with banks, as for support or protection | - |
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| embargo | (verb) prevent commerce | - |
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| (verb) ban the publication of (documents), as for security or copyright reasons | - |
| embark | (verb) set out on (an enterprise or subject of study) | Synonyms: enter |
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| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: ship |
| (verb) proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers | Synonyms: venture |
| embarrass | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious | Synonyms: abash |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, hinder, obstruct, stymie, stymy |
| embattle | (verb) prepare for battle or conflict | - |
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| (verb) fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense | - |
| embed | (verb) attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war | - |
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| (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: engraft, imbed, implant, plant |
| embellish | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, fancify, prettify |
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| (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embroider, lard, pad |
| (verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, decorate, grace, ornament |
| (verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, beautify, deck, decorate, grace |
| embezzle | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, malversate, misappropriate, peculate |
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| embitter | (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, envenom |
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| emblazon | (verb) decorate with heraldic arms | Synonyms: blazon |
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| (verb) decorate with colors | Synonyms: color, colour |
| embody | (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, personify |
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| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate |
| (verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form | - |
| embolden | (verb) give encouragement to | Synonyms: cheer, hearten, recreate |
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| emboss | (verb) raise in a relief | Synonyms: boss, stamp |
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| embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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| embrace | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, espouse, sweep up |
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| (verb) hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness | Synonyms: bosom, hug, squeeze |
| (verb) include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory | Synonyms: comprehend, cover, encompass |
| embrangle | (verb) make more complicated or confused through entanglements | Synonyms: snarl, snarl up |
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| embrittle | (verb) make brittle | - |
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| embrocate | (verb) administer an oil or ointment to; often in a religious ceremony of blessing | Synonyms: anele, anoint, inunct, oil |
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| embroider | (verb) add details to | Synonyms: aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, lard, pad |
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| (verb) decorate with needlework | Synonyms: broider |
| embroil | (verb) force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action | Synonyms: drag, drag in, sweep, sweep up, tangle |
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| embrown | (verb) make brown in color | Synonyms: brown |
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| (verb) cause to darken | - |
| emcee | (verb) act as a master of ceremonies | Synonyms: compere |
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| emend | (verb) make improvements or corrections to | - |
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| emerge | (verb) come out into view, as from concealment | - |
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| (verb) become known or apparent | - |
| (verb) come out of | Synonyms: come forth, come out, egress, go forth, issue |
| (verb) come up to the surface of or rise | - |
| (verb) happen or occur as a result of something | Synonyms: come forth |
| emigrate | (verb) leave one's country of residence for a new one | - |
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| emit | (verb) expel (gases or odors) | Synonyms: breathe, pass off |
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| (verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) | Synonyms: let loose, let out, utter |
| (verb) give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc. | Synonyms: give off, give out |
| emote | (verb) give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role | - |
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| empale | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: impale, spike, transfix |
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| empanel | (verb) select from a list | Synonyms: impanel, panel |
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| (verb) enter into a list of prospective jurors | Synonyms: impanel |
| empathise | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathize, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| empathize | (verb) be understanding of | Synonyms: empathise, sympathise, sympathize, understand |
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| emphasise | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasize, underline, underscore |
| emphasize | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, punctuate, stress |
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| (verb) give extra weight to (a communication) | Synonyms: emphasise, underline, underscore |
| emplace | (verb) put into place or position | - |
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| (verb) provide a new emplacement for guns | - |
| emplane | (verb) board a plane | Synonyms: enplane |
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