| licence | (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, license |
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| license | (verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: certify, licence |
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| lick | (verb) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of | Synonyms: figure out, puzzle out, solve, work, work out |
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| (verb) take up with the tongue | Synonyms: lap, lap up |
| (verb) pass the tongue over | Synonyms: lap |
| (verb) beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight | Synonyms: bat, clobber, cream, drub, thrash |
| lie | (verb) tell an untruth; pretend with intent to deceive | - |
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| (verb) be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position | - |
| (verb) assume a reclining position | Synonyms: lie down |
| (verb) be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position | - |
| (verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, dwell, lie in |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: rest |
| (verb) be and remain in a particular state or condition | - |
| lifehack | (verb) make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | - |
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| lift | (verb) perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face | Synonyms: face-lift |
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| (verb) remove from a surface | - |
| (verb) put an end to | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) remove (hair) by scalping | - |
| (verb) rise upward, as from pressure or moisture | - |
| (verb) invigorate or heighten | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: elevate, raise |
| (verb) remove from a seedbed or from a nursery | - |
| (verb) take off or away by decreasing | - |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, vacate |
| (verb) call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs | - |
| (verb) make audible | - |
| (verb) take hold of something and move it to a different location | - |
| (verb) raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help | Synonyms: hoist, wind |
| (verb) take (root crops) out of the ground | - |
| (verb) fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means | Synonyms: airlift |
| (verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, elevate, get up, raise |
| (verb) move upwards | Synonyms: raise |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, move up, rise, uprise |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plagiarise, plagiarize |
| (verb) pay off (a mortgage) | - |
| (verb) take illegally | Synonyms: rustle |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: rear, rise |
| ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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| (verb) bind chemically | - |
| (verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
| light | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, illumine, light up |
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| (verb) start or maintain a fire in | Synonyms: fire, ignite |
| (verb) begin to smoke | Synonyms: fire up, light up |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, perch |
| (verb) alight from (a horse) | Synonyms: dismount, get down, get off, unhorse |
| (verb) fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed | Synonyms: fall |
| (verb) cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat | Synonyms: ignite |
| lighten | (verb) make more cheerful through the use of color | Synonyms: brighten, lighten up |
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| (verb) become lighter | Synonyms: lighten up |
| (verb) alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive | Synonyms: relieve |
| (verb) become more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| (verb) reduce the weight on; make lighter | - |
| (verb) make more cheerful | Synonyms: buoy up, lighten up |
| lighter | (verb) transport in a flatbottom boat | - |
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| lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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| like | (verb) feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard | - |
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| (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: care, wish |
| (verb) be fond of | - |
| (verb) find enjoyable or agreeable | - |
| (verb) want to have | - |
| liken | (verb) consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous | Synonyms: compare, equate |
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| lilt | (verb) articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way | - |
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| limber | (verb) cause to become limber | - |
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| (verb) attach the limber | Synonyms: limber up |
| lime | (verb) cover with lime so as to induce growth | - |
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| (verb) spread birdlime on branches to catch birds | Synonyms: birdlime |
| limit | (verb) restrict or confine within limits | Synonyms: circumscribe, confine to |
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| (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, restrict, throttle, trammel |
| (verb) decide upon or fix definitely | Synonyms: define, determine, fix, set, specify |
| limn | (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, portray |
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| (verb) trace the shape of | Synonyms: delineate, outline |
| limp | (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, hobble |
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| (verb) proceed slowly or with difficulty | - |
| line | (verb) fill plentifully | - |
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| (verb) reinforce with fabric | - |
| (verb) cover the interior of | - |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, trace |
| (verb) mark with lines | - |
| (verb) be in line with; form a line along | Synonyms: run along |
| linearise | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearize |
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| linearize | (verb) make linear or get into a linear form | Synonyms: linearise |
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| linger | (verb) take one's time; proceed slowly | Synonyms: dawdle |
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| (verb) leave slowly and hesitantly | Synonyms: tarry |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) to hang about in a place beyond the proper or usual time | Synonyms: hover |
| (verb) remain present although waning or gradually dying | - |
| link | (verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, colligate, connect, link up, relate, tie in |
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| (verb) connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces | Synonyms: connect, link up, tie |
| (verb) link with or as with a yoke | Synonyms: yoke |
| (verb) be or become joined or united or linked | Synonyms: connect, join, link up, unite |
| lionise | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionize |
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| lionize | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionise |
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| lipread | (verb) interpret by lipreading; of deaf people | Synonyms: lip-read, speech-read |
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| lipstick | (verb) apply lipstick to | - |
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| (verb) form by tracing with lipstick | - |
| liquefy | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquify |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquidise, liquidize, liquify |
| (verb) become liquid | - |
| liquidate | (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, neutralise, neutralize, waste |
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| (verb) eliminate by paying off (debts) | Synonyms: pay off |
| (verb) convert into cash | - |
| (verb) settle the affairs of by determining the debts and applying the assets to pay them off | - |
| liquidise | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidize, liquify |
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| liquidize | (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquify |
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| (verb) sell or get rid of all one's merchandise | Synonyms: sell out, sell up |
| liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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| (verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
| lisp | (verb) speak with a lisp | - |
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| list | (verb) give or make a list of; name individually; give the names of | Synonyms: name |
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| (verb) enumerate | Synonyms: number |
| (verb) tilt to one side | Synonyms: heel |
| (verb) cause to lean to the side | Synonyms: lean |
| (verb) include in a list | - |
| listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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| (verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
| (verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
| literalise | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalize |
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| literalize | (verb) make literal | Synonyms: literalise |
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| lithograph | (verb) make by lithography | - |
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| litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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| (verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
| litter | (verb) give birth to a litter of animals | - |
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| (verb) make a place messy by strewing garbage around | - |
| (verb) strew | - |
| live | (verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: experience, know |
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| (verb) have life, be alive | Synonyms: be |
| (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, subsist, survive |
| (verb) continue to live and avoid dying | Synonyms: endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live on, survive |
| (verb) lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style | - |
| (verb) pursue a positive and satisfying existence | - |
| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, populate |
| liven | (verb) make lively | Synonyms: animate, enliven, invigorate, liven up |
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| load | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, stretch |
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| (verb) fill or place a load on | Synonyms: lade, laden, load up |
| (verb) provide (a device) with something necessary | Synonyms: charge |
| (verb) put (something) on a structure or conveyance | - |
| (verb) transfer from a storage device to a computer's memory | - |
| loaf | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loiter, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| loan | (verb) give temporarily; let have for a limited time | Synonyms: lend |
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| loathe | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: abhor, abominate, execrate |
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| lob | (verb) propel in a high arc | - |
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| lobby | (verb) detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors | Synonyms: buttonhole |
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| localise | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localize, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localize |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localize |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localize, place |
| localize | (verb) locate | Synonyms: localise, place, set |
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| (verb) restrict something to a particular area | Synonyms: localise |
| (verb) concentrate on a particular place or spot | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, localise |
| (verb) identify the location or place of | Synonyms: localise, place |
| locate | (verb) take up residence and become established | Synonyms: settle |
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| (verb) discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining | Synonyms: turn up |
| (verb) assign a location to | Synonyms: place, site |
| (verb) determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey | Synonyms: situate |
| lock | (verb) become rigid or immoveable | - |
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| (verb) fasten with a lock | - |
| (verb) keep engaged | Synonyms: engage, mesh, operate |
| (verb) place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape | Synonyms: lock away, lock in, lock up, put away, shut away, shut up |
| (verb) become engaged or intermeshed with one another | Synonyms: interlock |
| (verb) hold in a locking position | Synonyms: interlace, interlock |
| (verb) build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels | - |
| (verb) hold fast (in a certain state) | - |
| (verb) pass by means through a lock in a waterway | - |
| locomote | (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, move, travel |
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| lodge | (verb) file a formal charge against | Synonyms: charge, file |
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| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, stick, wedge |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: accommodate |
| (verb) be a lodger; stay temporarily | - |
| loft | (verb) lay out a full-scale working drawing of the lines of a vessel's hull | - |
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| (verb) propel through the air | - |
| (verb) kick or strike high in the air | - |
| (verb) store in a loft | - |
| log | (verb) enter into a log, as on ships and planes | - |
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| (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: lumber |
| logroll | (verb) work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes | - |
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| loiter | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, lollygag, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| loll | (verb) be lazy or idle | Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
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| (verb) hang loosely or laxly | Synonyms: droop |
| lollop | (verb) walk clumsily and with a bounce | - |
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| lollygag | (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
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| long | (verb) desire strongly or persistently | Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
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| look | (verb) to physically appear a certain way to another individual or group | - |
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| (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, wait |
| (verb) have faith or confidence in | Synonyms: bank, bet, calculate, count, depend, reckon, rely, swear |
| (verb) convey by one's expression | - |
| (verb) perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; look | - |
| (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, seem |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: search |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, see, take care |
| (verb) be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to | Synonyms: face, front |
| (verb) accord in appearance with | - |
| loom | (verb) weave on a loom | - |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, predominate, tower |
| (verb) come into view indistinctly, often threateningly | - |
| (verb) hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing | Synonyms: brood, bulk large, hover |
| loop | (verb) wind around something in coils or loops | Synonyms: coil, curl |
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| (verb) fasten or join with a loop | - |
| (verb) make a loop in | Synonyms: intertwine |
| (verb) fly loops, perform a loop | - |
| (verb) move in loops | - |
| loose | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loosen, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loosen |
| (verb) turn loose or free from restraint | Synonyms: let loose, unleash |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen |
| loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
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| (verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
| (verb) make less dense | - |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
| (verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
| (verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| (verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
| loot | (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip |
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| (verb) take illegally; of intellectual property | Synonyms: plunder |
| lop | (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, prune, snip, trim |
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| (verb) cut off from a whole | Synonyms: discerp, sever |
| lope | (verb) run easily | - |
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| lord | (verb) make a lord of someone | - |
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| lose | (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: suffer |
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| (verb) withdraw, as from reality | - |
| (verb) fail to win | - |
| (verb) suffer the loss of a person through death or removal | - |
| (verb) allow to go out of sight or mind | - |
| (verb) fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind | Synonyms: miss |
| (verb) fail to get or obtain | - |
| (verb) miss from one's possessions; lose sight of | - |
| (verb) fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense | - |
| (verb) fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit | Synonyms: turn a loss |
| lot | (verb) administer or bestow, as in small portions | Synonyms: administer, allot, deal, deal out, dish out, dispense, distribute, dole out, mete out, parcel out, shell out |
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| (verb) divide into lots, as of land, for example | - |
| louden | (verb) cause to become loud | - |
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| (verb) become louder | - |
| lounge | (verb) sit or recline comfortably | - |
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| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lurk, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| lour | (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lower |
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| (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lower, turn down |
| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lower |
| love | (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, jazz, know, lie with, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with |
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| (verb) have a great affection or liking for | - |
| (verb) be enamored or in love with | - |
| (verb) get pleasure from | Synonyms: enjoy |
| low | (verb) make a low noise, characteristic of bovines | Synonyms: moo |
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| lowball | (verb) make a deliberately low estimate | Synonyms: underestimate |
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| lower | (verb) make lower or quieter | Synonyms: lour, turn down |
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| (verb) set lower | Synonyms: lour |
| (verb) cause to drop or sink | Synonyms: depress |
| (verb) move something or somebody to a lower position | Synonyms: bring down, get down, let down, take down |
| (verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, glower, lour |
| lube | (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lubricate |
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| lubricate | (verb) make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant | - |
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| (verb) apply a lubricant to | Synonyms: lube |
| (verb) have lubricating properties | - |
| lucubrate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, exposit, expound, flesh out |
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| luff | (verb) flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides | - |
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| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: point |
| lug | (verb) carry with difficulty | Synonyms: tote, tug |
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| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, stuff |
| luge | (verb) move along on a luge or toboggan | Synonyms: toboggan |
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| lull | (verb) become quiet or less intensive | Synonyms: calm down |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) calm by deception | - |
| lumber | (verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests | Synonyms: log |
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| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: pound |
| luminesce | (verb) be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence | - |
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| lump | (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, collocate |
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| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: chunk |
| lunch | (verb) take the midday meal | - |
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| (verb) provide a midday meal for | - |
| lunge | (verb) make a thrusting forward movement | Synonyms: hurl, hurtle, thrust |
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| lurch | (verb) defeat by a lurch | Synonyms: skunk |
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| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: pitch, shift |
| (verb) move slowly and unsteadily | - |
| (verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: careen, keel, reel, stagger, swag |
| (verb) loiter about, with no apparent aim | Synonyms: prowl |
| lure | (verb) provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion | Synonyms: entice, tempt |
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| lurk | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, scupper, waylay |
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| (verb) to monitor a web forum or similar without making your presence pubilc | - |
| (verb) be about a place without any apparent purpose | Synonyms: footle, hang around, lallygag, linger, loaf, loiter, lollygag, lounge, mess about, mill about, mill around, tarry |
| (verb) lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner | Synonyms: skulk |
| lust | (verb) have a craving, appetite, or great desire for | Synonyms: crave, hunger, starve, thirst |
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| lustrate | (verb) purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials | - |
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| luxate | (verb) move out of position | Synonyms: dislocate, slip, splay |
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| luxuriate | (verb) thrive profusely or flourish extensively | - |
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| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: wanton |
| (verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: indulge |