| jab | (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, poke, prod, stab |
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| (verb) strike or punch with quick and short blows | - |
| (verb) stab or pierce | Synonyms: stab |
| jabber | (verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner | Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout |
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| jack | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jacklight |
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| (verb) lift with a special device | Synonyms: jack up |
| jacket | (verb) put a jacket on | - |
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| (verb) provide with a thermally non-conducting cover | - |
| jackknife | (verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife | - |
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| jacklight | (verb) hunt with a jacklight | Synonyms: jack |
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| jackrabbit | (verb) go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement | - |
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| jactitate | (verb) move or stir about violently | Synonyms: convulse, slash, thrash, thrash about, thresh, thresh about, toss |
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| jade | (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, pall, tire, weary |
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| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| jag | (verb) cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge | - |
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| jail | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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| jam | (verb) interfere with or prevent the reception of signals | Synonyms: block |
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| (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jampack, ram, wad |
| (verb) get stuck and immobilized | - |
| (verb) block passage through | Synonyms: block, close up, impede, obstruct, obturate, occlude |
| (verb) crush or bruise | Synonyms: crush |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: mob, pack, pile, throng |
| (verb) push down forcibly | - |
| jampack | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, ram, wad |
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| jangle | (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jingle-jangle, jingle |
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| japan | (verb) coat with a lacquer, as done in Japan | - |
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| jar | (verb) place in a cylindrical vessel | - |
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| (verb) affect in a disagreeable way | - |
| (verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion | Synonyms: jolt |
| (verb) shock physically | Synonyms: bump around, shake up |
| (verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict | Synonyms: clash, collide |
| jaundice | (verb) affect with, or as if with, jaundice | - |
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| (verb) distort adversely | - |
| jaunt | (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: travel, trip |
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| jaw | (verb) talk socially without exchanging too much information | Synonyms: chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, natter, shoot the breeze, visit |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
| (verb) talk incessantly and tiresomely | Synonyms: rattle on, yack, yack away, yap away |
| (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, manducate, masticate |
| jawbone | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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| jaywalk | (verb) cross the road at a red light | - |
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| jazz | (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| (verb) play something in the style of jazz | - |
| jeer | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, scoff |
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| jell | (verb) become gelatinous | Synonyms: congeal, set |
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| jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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| (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
| jelly | (verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jellify |
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| jeopardise | (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace, peril, threaten |
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| jeopardize | (verb) put at risk | Synonyms: adventure, hazard, stake, venture |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, menace, peril, threaten |
| jerk | (verb) make an uncontrolled, short, jerky motion | Synonyms: twitch |
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| (verb) throw or toss with a quick motion | Synonyms: flick |
| (verb) pull, or move with a sudden movement | Synonyms: yank |
| (verb) move with abrupt, seemingly uncontrolled motions | Synonyms: twitch |
| (verb) jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched | Synonyms: buck, hitch |
| jest | (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: joke |
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| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: joke |
| jet | (verb) issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth | Synonyms: gush |
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| (verb) fly a jet plane | - |
| jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
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| (verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
| jewel | (verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
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| jib | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jibe |
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| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, resist |
| jibe | (verb) shift from one side of the ship to the other | Synonyms: change course, gybe, jib |
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| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, match, tally |
| jig | (verb) dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions | - |
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| jigg | (verb) dancing in a style associated with the South Louisiana club scene | - |
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| jiggle | (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: joggle, wiggle |
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| jilt | (verb) cast aside capriciously or unfeelingly | - |
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| jimmy | (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: lever, prise, prize, pry |
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| jingle | (verb) make a sound typical of metallic objects | Synonyms: jangle, jingle-jangle |
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| jinx | (verb) foredoom to failure | - |
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| (verb) cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something | Synonyms: bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, witch |
| jitterbug | (verb) do the jitterbug | - |
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| jive | (verb) dance to jive music; dance the jive | - |
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| job | (verb) invest at a risk | Synonyms: speculate |
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| (verb) work occasionally | - |
| (verb) profit privately from public office and official business | - |
| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, subcontract |
| jockey | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, screw, shaft |
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| (verb) ride a racehorse as a professional jockey | - |
| (verb) compete (for an advantage or a position) | - |
| jog | (verb) stimulate to remember | - |
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| (verb) give a slight push to | - |
| (verb) run for exercise | - |
| (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, trot |
| (verb) even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing | Synonyms: even up, square up |
| (verb) continue talking or writing in a desultory manner | Synonyms: ramble, ramble on |
| joggle | (verb) fasten or join with a joggle | - |
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| (verb) move to and fro | Synonyms: jiggle, wiggle |
| join | (verb) make contact or come together | Synonyms: conjoin |
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| (verb) cause to become joined or linked | - |
| (verb) become part of; become a member of a group or organization | Synonyms: fall in, get together |
| (verb) come into the company of | - |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, link, link up, unite |
| joint | (verb) fasten with a joint | - |
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| (verb) separate (meat) at the joint | - |
| (verb) provide with a joint | Synonyms: articulate |
| (verb) fit as if by joints | - |
| joke | (verb) act in a funny or teasing way | Synonyms: jest |
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| (verb) tell a joke; speak humorously | Synonyms: jest |
| jollify | (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
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| jolly | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, josh, kid |
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| jolt | (verb) disturb (someone's) composure | - |
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| (verb) move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion | Synonyms: jar |
| josh | (verb) be silly or tease one another | Synonyms: banter, chaff, jolly, kid |
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| jostle | (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: shove |
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| (verb) make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving | - |
| jot | (verb) write briefly or hurriedly; write a short note of | Synonyms: jot down |
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| jounce | (verb) move up and down repeatedly | Synonyms: bounce |
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| journey | (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: travel |
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| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: travel |
| joust | (verb) joust against somebody in a tournament by fighting on horseback | - |
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| joy | (verb) feel happiness or joy | Synonyms: rejoice |
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| (verb) make glad or happy | Synonyms: gladden |
| joyride | (verb) ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it | Synonyms: tool, tool around |
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| jubilate | (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph |
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| (verb) celebrate a jubilee | - |
| judder | (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: shake |
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| judge | (verb) form a critical opinion of | Synonyms: evaluate, pass judgment |
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| (verb) judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time) | Synonyms: approximate, estimate, gauge, guess |
| (verb) determine the result of (a competition) | - |
| (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: label, pronounce |
| (verb) put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of | Synonyms: adjudicate, try |
| jug | (verb) stew in an earthenware jug | - |
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| (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
| juggle | (verb) throw, catch, and keep in the air several things simultaneously | - |
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| (verb) hold with difficulty and balance insecurely | - |
| (verb) deal with simultaneously | - |
| (verb) manipulate by or as if by moving around components | - |
| (verb) influence by slyness | Synonyms: beguile, hoodwink |
| julienne | (verb) cut into long thin strips | - |
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| jumble | (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: scramble, throw together |
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| (verb) assemble without order or sense | Synonyms: confuse, mix up |
| (verb) be all mixed up or jumbled together | Synonyms: mingle |
| jump | (verb) increase suddenly and significantly | - |
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| (verb) rise in rank or status | Synonyms: climb up, rise |
| (verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: alternate |
| (verb) pass abruptly from one state or topic to another | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) bypass | Synonyms: pass over, skip, skip over |
| (verb) make a sudden physical attack on | - |
| (verb) enter eagerly into | - |
| (verb) move forward by leaps and bounds | Synonyms: bound, leap, spring |
| (verb) cause to jump or leap | Synonyms: leap |
| (verb) move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm | Synonyms: start, startle |
| (verb) run off or leave the rails | Synonyms: derail |
| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jumpstart |
| (verb) jump down from an elevated point | Synonyms: jump off, leap |
| (verb) jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute | Synonyms: chute, parachute |
| (verb) be highly noticeable | Synonyms: jump out, leap out, stand out, stick out |
| jumpstart | (verb) start or re-start vigorously | Synonyms: jump-start |
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| (verb) start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery | Synonyms: jump-start, jump |
| junk | (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: scrap, trash |
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| junket | (verb) partake in a feast or banquet | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
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| (verb) provide a feast or banquet for | Synonyms: banquet, feast |
| (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junketeer |
| junketeer | (verb) go on a pleasure trip | Synonyms: junket |
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| justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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| (verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
| (verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
| jut | (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut out, project, protrude, stick out |
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| juxtapose | (verb) place side by side | - |
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