fluster | (verb) cause to be nervous or upset | - |
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(verb) be flustered; behave in a confused manner | - |
flute | (verb) form flutes in | - |
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flutter | (verb) wink briefly | Synonyms: bat |
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(verb) beat rapidly | Synonyms: palpitate |
(verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, quiver, waver |
(verb) move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart | Synonyms: dart, fleet, flit |
(verb) flap the wings rapidly or fly with flapping movements | - |
flux | (verb) mix together different elements | Synonyms: blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix |
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(verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: liquefy, liquify |
(verb) move or progress freely as if in a stream | Synonyms: flow |
fly | (verb) decrease rapidly and disappear | Synonyms: vanish, vaporize |
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(verb) change quickly from one emotional state to another | - |
(verb) transport by aeroplane | - |
(verb) hit a fly | - |
(verb) travel through the air; be airborne | Synonyms: wing |
(verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: aviate, pilot |
(verb) move quickly or suddenly | - |
(verb) run away quickly | Synonyms: flee, take flight |
(verb) travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft | - |
(verb) travel in an airplane | - |
(verb) pass away rapidly | Synonyms: fell, vanish |
(verb) cause to fly or float | - |
(verb) be dispersed or disseminated | - |
(verb) display in the air or cause to float | - |
flyfish | (verb) fish with flies as lures | Synonyms: fly-fish |
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foal | (verb) give birth to a foal | - |
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foam | (verb) become bubbly or frothy or foaming | Synonyms: effervesce, fizz, form bubbles, froth, sparkle |
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fob | (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
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focalise | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalize, focus, sharpen |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalize, focus |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalize, localise, localize |
focalize | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus |
(verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize |
focus | (verb) become focussed or come into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize |
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(verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, sharpen |
(verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, pore, rivet |
(verb) bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions | Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize |
(verb) cause to converge on or toward a central point | - |
fodder | (verb) give fodder (to domesticated animals) | - |
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fog | (verb) make less visible or unclear | Synonyms: becloud, befog, cloud, haze over, mist, obnubilate, obscure |
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foil | (verb) cover or back with foil | - |
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(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, frustrate, queer, scotch, spoil, thwart |
(verb) enhance by contrast | - |
foist | (verb) insert surreptitiously or without warrant | - |
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(verb) to force onto another | - |
fold | (verb) incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating | - |
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(verb) become folded or folded up | Synonyms: fold up |
(verb) bend or lay so that one part covers the other | Synonyms: fold up, turn up |
(verb) confine in a fold, like sheep | Synonyms: pen up |
(verb) cease to operate or cause to cease operating | Synonyms: close, close down, close up, shut down |
foliate | (verb) grow leaves | - |
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(verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: page, paginate |
(verb) coat or back with metal foil | - |
(verb) hammer into thin flat foils | - |
(verb) decorate with leaves | - |
follback | (verb) to return someone's following of you on a social media platform | - |
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follow | (verb) behave in accordance or in agreement with | Synonyms: conform to |
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(verb) keep informed | Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up |
(verb) keep to | Synonyms: stick to, stick with |
(verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: trace |
(verb) grasp the meaning | - |
(verb) imitate in behavior; take as a model | Synonyms: take after |
(verb) perform an accompaniment to | Synonyms: accompany, play along |
(verb) to travel behind, go after, come after | - |
(verb) travel along a certain course | Synonyms: travel along |
(verb) follow in or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: pursue |
(verb) keep under surveillance | Synonyms: surveil, survey |
(verb) choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans | Synonyms: adopt, espouse |
(verb) to subscribe to someone's updates on social media | - |
(verb) to be subscribed to updates from another user on social media | - |
(verb) act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes | Synonyms: abide by, comply |
(verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, succeed |
(verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over |
(verb) work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function | Synonyms: be |
(verb) accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of | - |
(verb) adhere to or practice | - |
(verb) be later in time | Synonyms: postdate |
(verb) come after in time, as a result | Synonyms: come after |
(verb) be next | - |
(verb) to bring something about at a later time than | - |
(verb) to be the product or result | Synonyms: come |
(verb) come as a logical consequence; follow logically | Synonyms: fall out |
foment | (verb) bathe with warm water or medicated lotions | - |
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(verb) try to stir up public opinion | Synonyms: agitate, stir up |
fondle | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: caress |
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fool | (verb) indulge in horseplay | Synonyms: arse around, fool around, horse around |
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(verb) fool or hoax | Synonyms: befool, cod, dupe, gull, put on, put one across, put one over, slang, take in |
(verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away, shoot |
(verb) make a fool or dupe of | Synonyms: befool, gull |
foolproof | (verb) proof against human misuse or error | Synonyms: goof-proof, goofproof |
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foot | (verb) add a column of numbers | Synonyms: foot up |
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(verb) walk | Synonyms: hoof, hoof it, leg it |
(verb) pay for something | Synonyms: pick |
footle | (verb) act foolishly, as by talking nonsense | - |
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(verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
footnote | (verb) add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments | Synonyms: annotate |
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footslog | (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: pad, plod, slog, tramp, trudge |
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forage | (verb) wander and feed | - |
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(verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: scrounge |
foray | (verb) briefly enter enemy territory | - |
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(verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
forbear | (verb) resist doing something | Synonyms: refrain |
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(verb) refrain from doing | Synonyms: hold back |
forbid | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent |
force | (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably | Synonyms: thrust |
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(verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: squeeze, wedge |
(verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically | Synonyms: drive, ram |
(verb) take by force | Synonyms: storm |
(verb) do forcibly; exert force | - |
(verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate | Synonyms: impel |
(verb) move with force | Synonyms: push |
(verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, hale, pressure, squeeze |
ford | (verb) cross a river where it's shallow | - |
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forearm | (verb) arm in advance of a confrontation | - |
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forebode | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, foretell, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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forecast | (verb) judge to be probable | Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, figure, reckon |
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(verb) predict in advance | Synonyms: calculate |
(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
foreclose | (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage | - |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, forestall, preclude, prevent |
foredate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, predate |
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foredoom | (verb) doom beforehand | - |
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forefend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forfend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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foregather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, forgather, gather, meet |
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forego | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, foreswear, forgo, relinquish, waive |
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forgo, precede, predate |
foreground | (verb) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent | Synonyms: highlight, play up, spotlight |
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foreknow | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse |
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foreordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: predestine, preordain |
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(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: predestinate, predestine |
foresee | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, previse |
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(verb) picture to oneself; imagine possible | Synonyms: envision |
(verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, forestall |
foreshadow | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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foreshorten | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, reduce, shorten |
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(verb) shorten lines in a drawing so as to create an illusion of depth | - |
foreshow | (verb) foretell by divine inspiration | - |
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forest | (verb) establish a forest on previously unforested land | Synonyms: afforest |
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forestall | (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time | Synonyms: anticipate, counter, foresee |
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(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, preclude, prevent |
foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
foretell | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, predict, prognosticate, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
(verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald |
forewarn | (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: previse |
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forfeit | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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forfend | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, head off, obviate, stave off, ward off |
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forgather | (verb) collect in one place | Synonyms: assemble, foregather, gather, meet |
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forge | (verb) create by hammering | Synonyms: hammer |
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(verb) make a copy of with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: counterfeit, fake |
(verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) | Synonyms: fashion |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: form, mold, mould, shape, work |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, invent |
(verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy | Synonyms: spirt, spurt |
(verb) move ahead steadily | - |
forget | (verb) be unable to remember | Synonyms: blank out, block, draw a blank |
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(verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering | Synonyms: bury |
(verb) leave behind unintentionally | Synonyms: leave |
(verb) forget to do something | - |
forgive | (verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness | - |
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(verb) absolve from payment | - |
forgo | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, give up, throw overboard, waive |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, relinquish, waive |
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, precede, predate |
fork | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, furcate, ramify, separate |
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(verb) shape like a fork | - |
(verb) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces | - |
(verb) lift with a pitchfork | Synonyms: pitchfork |
form | (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: shape |
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(verb) assume a form or shape | - |
(verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, mold, mould, shape, work |
(verb) create (as an entity) | Synonyms: organise, organize |
(verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind | Synonyms: imprint |
(verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, make |
(verb) develop into a distinctive entity | Synonyms: spring, take form, take shape |
formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
format | (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data | Synonyms: initialise, initialize |
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(verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) | - |
(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format | Synonyms: arrange |
formicate | (verb) crawl about like ants | - |
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formularise | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularize |
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formularize | (verb) express as a formula | Synonyms: formularise |
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formulate | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, give voice, phrase, word |
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(verb) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses | Synonyms: develop, explicate |
(verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort | Synonyms: contrive, devise, excogitate, forge, invent |
(verb) prepare according to a formula | - |
fornicate | (verb) have sex without being married | - |
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forsake | (verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch | Synonyms: abandon, desert, desolate |
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forswear | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract |
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fort | (verb) station (troops) in a fort | - |
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(verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fortify |
(verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense | Synonyms: fort up |
fortify | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: lace, spike |
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(verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, strengthen |
(verb) add nutrients to | - |
(verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, gird |
(verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fort |
forward | (verb) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit | Synonyms: send on |
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fossilise | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilize |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilize |
fossilize | (verb) convert to a fossil | Synonyms: fossilise |
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(verb) become mentally inflexible | Synonyms: fossilise |
foster | (verb) help develop, help grow | Synonyms: nurture |
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(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: cultivate, further |
(verb) bring up under fosterage; of children | - |
foul | (verb) become soiled and dirty | - |
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(verb) make unclean | - |
(verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, maculate |
(verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, pollute |
(verb) commit a foul; break the rules | - |
(verb) hit a foul ball | - |
(verb) become or cause to become obstructed | Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog, clog up, congest, crap up |
found | (verb) use as a basis for; found on | Synonyms: base, establish, ground |
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(verb) set up or lay the groundwork for | Synonyms: constitute, establish, institute, plant |
(verb) set up or found | Synonyms: establish, launch, set up |
founder | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically | Synonyms: break, cave in, collapse, fall in, give, give way |
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(verb) sink below the surface | - |
(verb) stumble and nearly fall | - |
(verb) fail utterly; collapse | Synonyms: fall flat, fall through, flop |
fowl | (verb) hunt fowl in the forest | - |
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(verb) hunt fowl | - |
fox | (verb) become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots | - |
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(verb) be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly | Synonyms: bedevil, befuddle, confound, confuse, discombobulate, fuddle, throw |
(verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick |
foxhunt | (verb) hunt foxes, on horseback and with dogs | - |
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foxtrot | (verb) dance the foxtrot | - |
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fraction | (verb) perform a division | Synonyms: divide |
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fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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(verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
fracture | (verb) fracture a bone of | Synonyms: break |
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(verb) become fractured | - |
(verb) violate or abuse | - |
(verb) break into pieces | - |
(verb) interrupt, break, or destroy | - |
fragment | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragmentise, fragmentize |
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fragmentise | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentize |
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fragmentize | (verb) break or cause to break into pieces | Synonyms: break up, fragment, fragmentise |
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frame | (verb) make up plans or basic details for | Synonyms: compose, draw up |
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(verb) formulate in a particular style or language | Synonyms: cast, couch, put, redact |
(verb) enclose in or as if in a frame | Synonyms: border, frame in |
(verb) construct by fitting or uniting parts together | Synonyms: frame up |
(verb) take or catch as if in a snare or trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, set up |
(verb) enclose in a frame, as of a picture | - |
franchise | (verb) grant a franchise to | - |
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frank | (verb) exempt by means of an official pass or letter, as from customs or other checks | - |
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(verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: postmark |
frap | (verb) take up the slack of | - |
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(verb) make secure by lashing | - |
fraternise | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternize |
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fraternize | (verb) be on friendly terms with someone, as if with a brother, especially with an enemy | Synonyms: fraternise |
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fray | (verb) wear away by rubbing | Synonyms: frazzle |
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(verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fret, rub, scratch |