| entrance | (verb) put into a trance | Synonyms: spellbind |
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| (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, fascinate, trance |
| entrap | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, snare, trammel, trap |
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| (verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, frame, set up |
| entreat | (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, press |
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| entrench | (verb) fix firmly or securely | Synonyms: intrench |
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| (verb) occupy a trench or secured area | Synonyms: dig in |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, impinge, trench |
| entrust | (verb) confer a trust upon | Synonyms: commit, confide, intrust, trust |
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| (verb) put into the care or protection of someone | Synonyms: leave |
| entwine | (verb) spin, wind, or twist together | Synonyms: enlace, interlace, intertwine, lace, twine |
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| (verb) tie or link together | Synonyms: knit |
| enucleate | (verb) remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover | - |
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| (verb) remove the nucleus from (a cell) | - |
| enumerate | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: itemise, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) determine the number or amount of | Synonyms: count, number, numerate |
| enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
| envelop | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, enwrap, wrap |
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| envenom | (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: poison |
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| (verb) cause to be bitter or resentful | Synonyms: acerbate, embitter |
| environ | (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, ring, skirt, surround |
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| envisage | (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, ideate, imagine |
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| envision | (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
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| (verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: foresee |
| envy | (verb) be envious of; set one's heart on | Synonyms: begrudge |
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| (verb) feel envious towards; admire enviously | - |
| enwrap | (verb) enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering | Synonyms: enclose, enfold, envelop, wrap |
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| epilate | (verb) remove body hair | Synonyms: depilate |
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| epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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| epitomize | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomise, typify |
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| epoxy | (verb) glue with epoxy | - |
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| equal | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equalise, equalize, equate, match |
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| (verb) be identical or equivalent to | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: match, rival, touch |
| equalise | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalize, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalize, get even |
| equalize | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equate, match |
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| (verb) compensate; make the score equal | Synonyms: equalise, get even |
| equate | (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, match |
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| (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, liken |
| (verb) be equivalent or parallel, in mathematics | Synonyms: correspond |
| equilibrate | (verb) bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium | - |
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| (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrise, equilibrize |
| equilibrise | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize |
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| equilibrize | (verb) bring into balance or equilibrium | Synonyms: balance, equilibrate, equilibrise |
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| equip | (verb) provide with abilities or understanding | - |
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| (verb) provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose | Synonyms: fit, fit out, outfit |
| equivocate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, palter, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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| eradicate | (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eliminate, extinguish, wipe out |
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| (verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: exterminate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
| erase | (verb) remove from memory or existence | Synonyms: wipe out |
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| (verb) wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information | Synonyms: delete |
| (verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing | Synonyms: efface, rub out, score out, wipe off |
| erect | (verb) construct, build, or erect | Synonyms: put up, raise, rear, set up |
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| (verb) cause to rise up | Synonyms: rear |
| erode | (verb) remove soil or rock | Synonyms: eat away, fret |
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| (verb) become ground down or deteriorate | Synonyms: eat at, gnaw, gnaw at, wear away |
| eroticize | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting | Synonyms: sex up |
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| err | (verb) to make a mistake or be incorrect | Synonyms: mistake, slip |
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| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, stray |
| eruct | (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, bubble, burp |
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| (verb) eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical | Synonyms: spew, spew out |
| erupt | (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, extravasate |
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| (verb) start abruptly | Synonyms: break out |
| (verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt |
| (verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, recrudesce |
| (verb) break out | Synonyms: break through, come out, push through |
| (verb) appear on the skin | - |
| (verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, burst |
| (verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
| escalade | (verb) climb up and over | - |
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| escalate | (verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: intensify, step up |
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| escallop | (verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: scallop |
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| escape | (verb) issue or leak, as from a small opening | - |
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| (verb) fail to experience | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action | Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
| (verb) run away from confinement | Synonyms: break loose, get away |
| (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
| (verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion | Synonyms: get away |
| (verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by | Synonyms: elude |
| eschew | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: shun |
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| escort | (verb) accompany as an escort | - |
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| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: see |
| espouse | (verb) take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own | Synonyms: adopt, embrace, sweep up |
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| (verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, follow |
| (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry, wed |
| espy | (verb) catch sight of | Synonyms: descry, spot, spy |
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| essay | (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, seek, try |
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| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: examine, prove, test, try, try out |
| establish | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, prove, shew, show |
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| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: lay down, make |
| (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, found, ground |
| (verb) place | Synonyms: instal, install, set up |
| (verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, found, institute, plant |
| (verb) bring about | Synonyms: give |
| (verb) build or establish something abstract | Synonyms: build |
| (verb) set up or found | Synonyms: found, launch, set up |
| esteem | (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, repute, take to be, think of |
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| (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: prise, prize, respect, value |
| esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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| estimate | (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, gauge, guess, judge |
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| (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, figure, forecast, reckon |
| estivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: aestivate |
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| estrange | (verb) arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness | Synonyms: alienate, disaffect |
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| (verb) remove from customary environment or associations | - |
| etch | (verb) selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons | - |
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| (verb) carve or cut a design or letters into | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) make an etching of | - |
| (verb) carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block | Synonyms: engrave |
| (verb) cause to stand out or be clearly defined or visible | - |
| eternalise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternalize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternise | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternize, immortalise, immortalize |
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| eternize | (verb) make famous forever | Synonyms: eternalise, eternalize, eternise, immortalise, immortalize |
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| (verb) cause to continue indefinitely | - |
| etherealize | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherialise |
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| etherialise | (verb) make ethereal | Synonyms: etherealize |
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| etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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| etherise | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherize |
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| etherize | (verb) anesthetize with ether | Synonyms: etherise |
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| etiolate | (verb) make pale or sickly | - |
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| (verb) bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight | - |
| (verb) make weak by stunting the growth or development of | - |
| etymologise | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologize |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologize |
| etymologize | (verb) construct the history of words | Synonyms: etymologise |
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| (verb) give the etymology or derivation or suggest an etymology (for a word) | Synonyms: etymologise |
| eulogise | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogize |
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| eulogize | (verb) praise formally and eloquently | Synonyms: eulogise |
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| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| euphemize | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemise |
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| euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanize, mercy kill |
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| euthanize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanatize, euthanise, mercy kill |
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| evacuate | (verb) excrete or discharge from the body | Synonyms: empty, void |
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| (verb) remove content from | - |
| (verb) create a vacuum in (a bulb, flask, reaction vessel) | - |
| (verb) move people from their homes or country | - |
| (verb) move out of an unsafe location into safety | - |
| evade | (verb) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) | Synonyms: circumvent, dodge, duck, elude, fudge, hedge, parry, put off, sidestep, skirt |
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| (verb) use cunning or deceit to escape or avoid | - |
| (verb) escape, either physically or mentally | Synonyms: bilk, elude |
| (verb) practice evasion | - |
| evaluate | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: judge, pass judgment |
| evanesce | (verb) disappear gradually | Synonyms: blow over, fade, fleet, pass, pass off |
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| evangelise | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelize |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelize |
| evangelize | (verb) spread the Christian faith | Synonyms: evangelise |
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| (verb) preach the gospel (to) | Synonyms: evangelise |
| evaporate | (verb) lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue | Synonyms: vaporise, vaporize |
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| (verb) change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) cause to change into a vapor | Synonyms: vaporise |
| (verb) become less intense and fade away gradually | Synonyms: disappear, melt |
| even | (verb) become even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
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| (verb) make even or more even | Synonyms: even out |
| (verb) make level or straight | Synonyms: even out, flush, level |
| eventuate | (verb) come out in the end | - |
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| evert | (verb) turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward | - |
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| evict | (verb) expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process | Synonyms: force out |
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| (verb) expel or eject without recourse to legal process | - |
| evidence | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
| (verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
| evince | (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: express, show |
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| eviscerate | (verb) remove the entrails of | Synonyms: disembowel, draw |
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| (verb) remove the contents of | - |
| (verb) take away a vital or essential part of | - |
| (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: resect |
| evoke | (verb) call to mind | Synonyms: paint a picture, suggest |
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| (verb) evoke or provoke to appear or occur | Synonyms: call forth, kick up, provoke |
| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, elicit, extract |
| (verb) summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic | Synonyms: arouse, bring up, call down, call forth, conjure, conjure up, invoke, put forward, raise, stir |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, elicit, enkindle, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| evolve | (verb) undergo development or evolution | - |
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| (verb) gain through experience | Synonyms: acquire, develop |
| (verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, germinate |
| exacerbate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exasperate |
| exact | (verb) claim as due or just | Synonyms: demand |
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| (verb) take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs | Synonyms: claim, take |
| exaggerate | (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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| (verb) do something to an excessive degree | Synonyms: overdo |
| exalt | (verb) raise in rank, character, or status | - |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: extol, glorify, laud, proclaim |
| (verb) heighten or intensify | Synonyms: animate, enliven, inspire, invigorate |
| (verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
| examine | (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, study |
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| (verb) question closely | - |
| (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: probe |
| (verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: see |
| (verb) put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to | Synonyms: essay, prove, test, try, try out |
| exasperate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate, worsen |
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| (verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: aggravate, exacerbate |
| (verb) make furious | Synonyms: incense, infuriate |
| excavate | (verb) find by digging in the ground | Synonyms: dig up, turn up |
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| (verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, hollow |
| (verb) form by hollowing | - |
| (verb) recover through digging | Synonyms: unearth |
| exceed | (verb) be or do something to a greater degree | Synonyms: outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: go past, overstep, pass, top, transcend |
| (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: surpass, transcend |
| excel | (verb) distinguish oneself | Synonyms: stand out, surpass |
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| except | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: exclude, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) object to | Synonyms: demur |
| excerpt | (verb) take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy | Synonyms: extract, take out |
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