| forage
|
(verb) collect or look around for (food) |
Synonyms:
scrounge |
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| (verb) wander and feed |
- |
| foray
|
(verb) steal goods; take as spoils |
Synonyms:
ransack,
reave,
rifle,
despoil,
pillage,
plunder,
strip,
loot |
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| (verb) briefly enter enemy territory |
- |
| forbear
|
(verb) refrain from doing |
Synonyms:
hold back |
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| (verb) resist doing something |
Synonyms:
refrain |
| forbid
|
(verb) command against |
Synonyms:
veto,
nix,
interdict,
disallow,
prohibit,
proscribe |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible |
Synonyms:
foreclose,
preclude,
prevent,
forestall |
| force
|
(verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means |
Synonyms:
squeeze,
hale,
pressure,
coerce |
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| (verb) urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate |
Synonyms:
impel |
| (verb) move with force |
Synonyms:
push |
| (verb) impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably |
Synonyms:
thrust |
| (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) do forcibly; exert force |
- |
| (verb) take by force |
Synonyms:
storm |
| 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:
call,
anticipate,
promise,
predict,
prognosticate,
foretell |
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| forecast
|
(verb) predict in advance |
Synonyms:
calculate |
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| (verb) judge to be probable |
Synonyms:
reckon,
estimate,
calculate,
count on,
figure |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen |
Synonyms:
auspicate,
portend,
predict,
prefigure,
presage,
prognosticate,
omen,
augur,
betoken,
bode,
foreshadow,
foretell |
| foreclose
|
(verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible |
Synonyms:
preclude,
prevent,
forbid,
forestall |
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| (verb) subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage |
- |
| foredate
|
(verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else |
Synonyms:
predate,
antedate |
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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:
deflect,
avert,
ward off,
head off,
debar,
obviate,
stave off,
avoid,
fend off,
forfend |
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| foregather
|
(verb) collect in one place |
Synonyms:
meet,
gather,
assemble,
forgather |
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| forego
|
(verb) be earlier in time; go back further |
Synonyms:
precede,
forgo,
predate,
antedate,
antecede |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to |
Synonyms:
relinquish,
dispense with,
waive,
foreswear,
forgo |
| (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime |
Synonyms:
give up,
waive,
forfeit,
forgo,
throw overboard |
| 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:
previse,
anticipate,
foresee |
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| foreordain
|
(verb) foreordain by divine will or decree |
Synonyms:
predestinate,
predestine |
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| (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand |
Synonyms:
predestine,
preordain |
| foresee
|
(verb) realize beforehand |
Synonyms:
previse,
anticipate,
foreknow |
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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:
forecast,
auspicate,
portend,
predict,
prefigure,
presage,
prognosticate,
omen,
augur,
betoken,
bode,
foretell |
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| foreshorten
|
(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements |
Synonyms:
cut,
reduce,
contract,
shorten,
abbreviate,
abridge |
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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) keep from happening or arising; make impossible |
Synonyms:
foreclose,
preclude,
prevent,
forbid |
|---|
| (verb) act in advance of; deal with ahead of time |
Synonyms:
anticipate,
foresee,
counter |
| foreswear
|
(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to |
Synonyms:
relinquish,
dispense with,
waive,
forego,
forgo |
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| (verb) turn away from; give up |
Synonyms:
quit,
relinquish,
renounce |
| foretell
|
(verb) foreshadow or presage |
Synonyms:
harbinger,
herald,
announce,
annunciate |
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| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance |
Synonyms:
call,
anticipate,
promise,
predict,
prognosticate,
forebode |
| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen |
Synonyms:
forecast,
auspicate,
portend,
predict,
prefigure,
presage,
prognosticate,
omen,
augur,
betoken,
bode,
foreshadow |
| 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:
give up,
waive,
forego,
forgo,
throw overboard |
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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:
deflect,
avert,
ward off,
head off,
debar,
obviate,
stave off,
avoid,
fend off,
forefend |
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| forgather
|
(verb) collect in one place |
Synonyms:
meet,
gather,
assemble,
foregather |
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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:
fake,
counterfeit |
| (verb) come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort |
Synonyms:
excogitate,
devise,
formulate,
invent,
contrive |
| (verb) move ahead steadily |
- |
| (verb) move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy |
Synonyms:
spirt,
spurt |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function |
Synonyms:
mold,
work,
shape,
form,
mould |
| (verb) make out of components (often in an improvising manner) |
Synonyms:
fashion |
| forget
|
(verb) dismiss from the mind; stop remembering |
Synonyms:
bury |
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| (verb) be unable to remember |
Synonyms:
draw a blank,
blank out,
block |
| (verb) forget to do something |
- |
| (verb) leave behind unintentionally |
Synonyms:
leave |
| forgive
|
(verb) stop blaming or grant forgiveness |
- |
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| (verb) absolve from payment |
- |
| forgo
|
(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to |
Synonyms:
relinquish,
dispense with,
waive,
forego,
foreswear |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further |
Synonyms:
precede,
forego,
predate,
antedate,
antecede |
| (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime |
Synonyms:
give up,
waive,
forego,
forfeit,
throw overboard |
| fork
|
(verb) lift with a pitchfork |
Synonyms:
pitchfork |
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| (verb) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces |
- |
| (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork |
Synonyms:
separate,
ramify,
branch,
furcate |
| (verb) shape like a fork |
- |
| form
|
(verb) create (as an entity) |
Synonyms:
organise,
organize |
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| (verb) to compose or represent |
Synonyms:
make,
constitute |
| (verb) develop into a distinctive entity |
Synonyms:
spring,
take form,
take shape |
| (verb) give shape or form to |
Synonyms:
shape |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function |
Synonyms:
mold,
work,
shape,
forge,
mould |
| (verb) establish or impress firmly in the mind |
Synonyms:
imprint |
| (verb) assume a form or shape |
- |
| formalise
|
(verb) make formal or official |
Synonyms:
formalize |
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| (verb) declare or make legally valid |
Synonyms:
validate,
formalize |
| formalize
|
(verb) make formal or official |
Synonyms:
formalise |
|---|
| (verb) declare or make legally valid |
Synonyms:
validate,
formalise |
| format
|
(verb) set (printed matter) into a specific format |
Synonyms:
arrange |
|---|
| (verb) determine the arrangement of (data) for storage and display (in computer science) |
- |
| (verb) divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data |
Synonyms:
initialise,
initialize |
| formicate
|
(verb) crawl about like ants |
- |
|---|
| formularise
|
(verb) express as a formula |
Synonyms:
formularize |
|---|
| formularize
|
(verb) express as a formula |
Synonyms:
formularise |
|---|
| formulate
|
(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:
excogitate,
forge,
devise,
invent,
contrive |
| (verb) put into words or an expression |
Synonyms:
articulate,
phrase,
give voice,
word |
| (verb) prepare according to a formula |
- |
| fornicate
|
(verb) have sex without being married |
- |
|---|
| forsake
|
(verb) leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch |
Synonyms:
desert,
desolate,
abandon |
|---|
| forswear
|
(verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure |
Synonyms:
resile,
retract,
recant,
abjure |
|---|
| fort
|
(verb) gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense |
Synonyms:
fort up |
|---|
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification |
Synonyms:
fortify |
| (verb) station (troops) in a fort |
- |
| fortify
|
(verb) make strong or stronger |
Synonyms:
strengthen,
beef up |
|---|
| (verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification |
Synonyms:
fort |
| (verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation |
Synonyms:
gird,
arm,
build up |
| (verb) add nutrients to |
- |
| (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) |
Synonyms:
spike,
lace |
| forward
|
(verb) send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit |
Synonyms:
send on |
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