| 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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| exchange | (verb) exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category | Synonyms: change, commute, convert |
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| (verb) change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence | Synonyms: switch, switch over |
| (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one | Synonyms: commute, convert |
| (verb) give to, and receive from, one another | Synonyms: change, interchange |
| (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: interchange, replace, substitute |
| (verb) hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent | - |
| excise | (verb) remove by cutting | - |
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| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: expunge, scratch, strike |
| (verb) levy an excise tax on | - |
| excite | (verb) act as a stimulant | Synonyms: stimulate |
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| (verb) produce a magnetic field in | - |
| (verb) raise to a higher energy level | Synonyms: energise, energize |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: shake, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) to evoke sexual feelings | Synonyms: arouse, sex, turn on, wind up |
| (verb) arouse or elicit a feeling | - |
| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, rouse, turn on |
| (verb) stir feelings in | Synonyms: stimulate, stir |
| exclaim | (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, outcry, shout |
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| (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: proclaim, promulgate |
| exclude | (verb) prevent from being included or considered or accepted | Synonyms: except, leave off, leave out, omit, take out |
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| (verb) prevent from entering; keep out | Synonyms: bar, debar |
| (verb) put out or expel from a place | Synonyms: boot out, chuck out, eject, turf out, turn out |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: keep out, shut, shut out |
| (verb) lack or fail to include | - |
| excogitate | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, forge, formulate, invent |
| excommunicate | (verb) exclude from a church or a religious community | Synonyms: curse, unchurch |
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| (verb) oust or exclude from a group or membership by decree | - |
| excoriate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate |
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| (verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: chafe |
| excrete | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, eliminate, pass |
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| excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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| (verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
| exculpate | (verb) pronounce not guilty of criminal charges | Synonyms: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate |
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| excuse | (verb) accept an excuse for | Synonyms: pardon |
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| (verb) defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning | Synonyms: apologise, apologize, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with | Synonyms: condone |
| (verb) serve as a reason or cause or justification of | Synonyms: explain |
| (verb) grant exemption or release to | Synonyms: exempt, let off, relieve |
| (verb) ask for permission to be released from an engagement | Synonyms: beg off |