| macadam | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadamise, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| macadamize | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamise, tarmac |
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| macerate | (verb) soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result | - |
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| (verb) become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking | - |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, waste |
| (verb) separate into constituents by soaking | - |
| machicolate | (verb) supply with projecting galleries | - |
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| machinate | (verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: cabal, complot, conjure, conspire |
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| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, organise, organize, prepare |
| machine | (verb) make by machinery | - |
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| (verb) turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery | - |
| macrame | (verb) make knotted patterns | - |
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| maculate | (verb) spot, stain, or pollute | Synonyms: befoul, defile, foul |
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| (verb) make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically | Synonyms: defile, stain, sully, tarnish |
| madden | (verb) make mad | - |
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| (verb) drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves | - |
| (verb) cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind | Synonyms: craze |
| madder | (verb) color a moderate to strong red | - |
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| madrigal | (verb) sing madrigals | - |
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| magnetise | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetize |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetize, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnetize | (verb) make magnetic | Synonyms: magnetise |
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| (verb) attract strongly, as if with a magnet | Synonyms: bewitch, magnetise, mesmerise, mesmerize, spellbind |
| magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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| (verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
| (verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
| mail | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: post, send |
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| (verb) send via the postal service | Synonyms: get off |
| maim | (verb) injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation | - |
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| mainline | (verb) inject into the vein | - |
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| maintain | (verb) stick to correctly or closely | Synonyms: keep, observe |
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| (verb) state categorically | Synonyms: assert, asseverate |
| (verb) state or assert | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) support against an opponent | Synonyms: uphold |
| (verb) maintain by writing regular records | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) supply with necessities and support | Synonyms: keep, sustain |
| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, preserve |
| (verb) have and exercise | Synonyms: exert, wield |
| (verb) maintain for use and service | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity | Synonyms: hold, keep |
| major | (verb) have as one's principal field of study | - |
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| make | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, shit, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
| (verb) behave in a certain manner | - |
| (verb) act in a certain way so as to acquire | - |
| (verb) give certain properties to something | Synonyms: get |
| (verb) put in order or neaten | Synonyms: make up |
| (verb) cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable | - |
| (verb) develop into | - |
| (verb) favor the development of | - |
| (verb) change from one form into another | - |
| (verb) make, formulate, or derive in the mind | Synonyms: draw |
| (verb) consider as being | - |
| (verb) calculate as being | - |
| (verb) institute, enact, or establish | Synonyms: establish, lay down |
| (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: cause, get, have, induce, stimulate |
| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make believe, pretend |
| (verb) assure the success of | - |
| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: score, seduce |
| (verb) make or cause to be or to become | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, produce |
| (verb) organize or be responsible for | Synonyms: give, have, hold, throw |
| (verb) create or design, often in a certain way | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, prepare, ready |
| (verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: cause, do |
| (verb) create by artistic means | Synonyms: create |
| (verb) gather and light the materials for | - |
| (verb) make by shaping or bringing together constituents | - |
| (verb) perform, produce, or carry out | - |
| (verb) make by combining materials and parts | Synonyms: build, construct |
| (verb) compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way | - |
| (verb) reach a destination, either real or abstract | Synonyms: arrive at, attain, gain, hit, reach |
| (verb) reach a goal | Synonyms: get to, progress to, reach |
| (verb) head into a specified direction | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) proceed along a path | Synonyms: work |
| (verb) reach in time | - |
| (verb) appear to begin an activity | - |
| (verb) earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages | Synonyms: bring in, clear, earn, gain, pull in, realise, realize, take in |
| (verb) achieve a point or goal | Synonyms: get, have |
| (verb) engage in | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) form by assembling individuals or constituents | - |
| (verb) charge with a function; charge to be | Synonyms: name, nominate |
| (verb) carry out or commit | - |
| (verb) be or be capable of being changed or made into | - |
| (verb) to compose or represent | Synonyms: constitute, form |
| (verb) undergo fabrication or creation | - |
| (verb) amount to | - |
| (verb) add up to | - |
| (verb) be suitable for | - |
| (verb) constitute the essence of | - |
| maledict | (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemise, anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate |
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| malfunction | (verb) fail to function or function improperly | Synonyms: misfunction |
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| malign | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce |
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| malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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| malnourish | (verb) provide with insufficient quality or quantity of nourishment | Synonyms: undernourish |
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| malt | (verb) convert into malt | - |
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| (verb) turn into malt, become malt | - |
| (verb) convert grain into malt | - |
| (verb) treat with malt or malt extract | - |
| maltreat | (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, mistreat, step |
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| malversate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, misappropriate, peculate |
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| mambo | (verb) dance a mambo | - |
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| man | (verb) provide with workers | - |
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| (verb) take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place | - |
| manacle | (verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs | Synonyms: cuff, handcuff |
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| manage | (verb) handle effectively | Synonyms: handle, wield |
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| (verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: care, deal, handle |
| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: oversee, superintend, supervise |
| (verb) carry on or function | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available | Synonyms: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out |
| (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, wangle |
| (verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, negociate, pull off |
| mandate | (verb) assign authority to | - |
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| (verb) make mandatory | - |
| (verb) assign under a mandate | - |
| manducate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, masticate |
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| maneuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: manoeuver, manoeuvre |
| mangle | (verb) damage or injure severely | Synonyms: cut up, mutilate |
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| (verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable | Synonyms: murder, mutilate |
| (verb) press with a mangle | - |
| (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: maul |
| manhandle | (verb) handle roughly | - |
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| manicure | (verb) care for (one's hand) by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| (verb) trim carefully and neatly | - |
| manifest | (verb) reveal its presence or make an appearance | - |
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| (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, evidence |
| (verb) record in a ship's manifest | - |
| manifold | (verb) make multiple copies of | Synonyms: multiply |
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| (verb) combine or increase by multiplication | Synonyms: multiply |
| manipulate | (verb) treat manually, as with massage, for therapeutic purposed | - |
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| (verb) hold something in one's hands and move it | - |
| (verb) maintain influence over (others or oneself) skillfully, usually to one's advantage | Synonyms: control, keep in line |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: rig |
| (verb) influence or control shrewdly or deviously | Synonyms: pull strings, pull wires |
| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, misrepresent, wangle |
| manoeuver | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuvre, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuvre |
| manoeuvre | (verb) perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver, operate |
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| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, point, steer |
| (verb) act in order to achieve a certain goal | Synonyms: maneuver, manoeuver |
| mantle | (verb) cover like a mantle | - |
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| (verb) spread over a surface, like a mantle | - |
| manufacture | (verb) put together out of artificial or natural components or parts | Synonyms: construct, fabricate |
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| (verb) concoct something artificial or untrue | Synonyms: cook up, fabricate, invent, make up |
| (verb) create or produce in a mechanical way | - |
| (verb) produce naturally | - |
| manumit | (verb) free from slavery or servitude | Synonyms: emancipate |
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| manure | (verb) spread manure, as for fertilization | Synonyms: muck |
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| map | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: represent |
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| (verb) explore or survey for the purpose of making a map | - |
| (verb) make a map of; show or establish the features of details of | - |
| (verb) depict as if on a map | - |
| (verb) plan, delineate, or arrange in detail | Synonyms: map out |
| (verb) locate within a specific region of a chromosome in relation to known DNA or gene sequences | - |
| mapquest | (verb) search for a location and directions by means of the MapQuest program | - |
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| mar | (verb) destroy or injure severely | Synonyms: mutilate |
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| (verb) make imperfect | Synonyms: deflower, impair, spoil, vitiate |
| maraud | (verb) raid and rove in search of booty | - |
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| marble | (verb) paint or stain like marble | - |
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| marbleise | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleize |
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| marbleize | (verb) make something look like marble | Synonyms: marbleise |
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| marcel | (verb) make a marcel in a woman's hair | - |
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| march | (verb) lie adjacent to another or share a boundary | Synonyms: abut, adjoin, border, butt, butt against, butt on, edge |
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| (verb) walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) walk ostentatiously | Synonyms: exhibit, parade |
| (verb) force to march | - |
| (verb) cause to march or go at a marching pace | - |
| (verb) march in protest; take part in a demonstration | Synonyms: demonstrate |
| marginalise | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalize |
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| marginalize | (verb) relegate to a lower or outer edge, as of specific groups of people | Synonyms: marginalise |
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| marinade | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinate |
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| marinate | (verb) soak in marinade | Synonyms: marinade |
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| mark | (verb) make or leave a mark on | - |
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| (verb) insert punctuation marks into | Synonyms: punctuate |
| (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, score |
| (verb) celebrate by some ceremony or observation | Synonyms: commemorate |
| (verb) put a check mark on or near or next to | Synonyms: check, check off, mark off, tick, tick off |
| (verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish |
| (verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: score |
| (verb) remove from a list | Synonyms: cross off, cross out, strike off, strike out |
| (verb) designate as if by a mark | - |
| (verb) establish as the highest level or best performance | Synonyms: set |
| (verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: nock, score |
| (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: pit, pock, scar |
| (verb) attach a tag or label to | Synonyms: label, tag |
| (verb) notice or perceive | Synonyms: note, notice |
| (verb) to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful | Synonyms: brand, denounce, stigmatise, stigmatize |
| market | (verb) make commercial | Synonyms: commercialise, commercialize |
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| (verb) engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of | - |
| (verb) deal in a market | - |
| (verb) buy household supplies | - |
| maroon | (verb) leave stranded on a desert island without resources | - |
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| (verb) leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue | Synonyms: strand |
| marry | (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, wed |
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| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: splice, tie, wed |
| marshal | (verb) make ready for action or use | Synonyms: mobilise, mobilize, summon |
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| (verb) arrange in logical order | - |
| (verb) place in proper rank | - |
| (verb) lead ceremoniously, as in a procession | - |
| martyr | (verb) torture and torment like a martyr | Synonyms: martyrise, martyrize |
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| (verb) kill as a martyr | - |
| martyrise | (verb) torture and torment like a martyr | Synonyms: martyr, martyrize |
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| martyrize | (verb) torture and torment like a martyr | Synonyms: martyr, martyrise |
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| marvel | (verb) express astonishment or surprise about something | - |
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| (verb) be amazed at | Synonyms: wonder |
| masculinise | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinize, virilise, virilize |
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| masculinize | (verb) produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy | Synonyms: masculinise, virilise, virilize |
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| (verb) give a masculine appearance or character to | - |
| mash | (verb) reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading | Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance |
| (verb) to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch |
| mask | (verb) put a mask on or cover with a mask | - |
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| (verb) shield from light | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) cover with a sauce | - |
| (verb) hide under a false appearance | Synonyms: cloak, dissemble |
| (verb) make unrecognizable | Synonyms: disguise |
| masquerade | (verb) pretend to be someone or something that you are not | - |
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| (verb) take part in a masquerade | - |
| mass | (verb) join together into a mass or collect or form a mass | - |
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| massacre | (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately | Synonyms: mow down, slaughter |
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| massage | (verb) give a massage to | - |
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| (verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: knead, rub down |
| master | (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
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| (verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
| (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
| mastermind | (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
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| masticate | (verb) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth | Synonyms: chew, jaw, manducate |
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| (verb) grind and knead | - |
| masturbate | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, she-bop, wank |
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| (verb) stimulate sexually | - |
| mat | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up |
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| (verb) twist together or entwine into a confusing mass | Synonyms: entangle, snarl, tangle |
| match | (verb) be equal or harmonize | - |
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| (verb) make correspond or harmonize | Synonyms: fit |
| (verb) make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching | Synonyms: equal, equalise, equalize, equate |
| (verb) set into opposition or rivalry | Synonyms: oppose, pit, play off |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, mate, pair, twin |
| (verb) give or join in marriage | - |
| (verb) provide funds complementary to | - |
| (verb) be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics | Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, tally |
| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, rival, touch |
| mate | (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: checkmate |
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| (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin |
| materialise | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialize |
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| materialize | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialise |
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| matriculate | (verb) enroll as a student | - |
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| matte | (verb) change texture so as to become matted and felt-like | Synonyms: felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte up |
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| matter | (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, weigh |
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| maturate | (verb) ripen and generate pus | Synonyms: fester, suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, mature |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, mature, senesce |
| mature | (verb) cause to ripen and discharge pus | Synonyms: suppurate |
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| (verb) develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation | Synonyms: grow, maturate |
| (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, senesce |
| (verb) become due for repayment | - |
| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: ripen |
| (verb) develop and work out fully in one's mind | - |
| maul | (verb) injure badly by beating | Synonyms: mangle |
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| (verb) split (wood) with a maul and wedges | - |
| maunder | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: mumble, mussitate, mutter |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| (verb) wander aimlessly | - |
| maximise | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximize |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximize |
| maximize | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximise |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximise |
| mean | (verb) have in mind as a purpose | Synonyms: intend, think |
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| (verb) intend to refer to | Synonyms: have in mind, think of |
| (verb) destine or designate for a certain purpose | - |
| (verb) mean or intend to express or convey | Synonyms: intend |
| (verb) denote or connote | Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for |
| (verb) have as a logical consequence | Synonyms: entail, imply |
| (verb) have a specified degree of importance | - |
| meander | (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: thread, wander, weave, wind |
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| measure | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: quantify |
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| (verb) determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of | Synonyms: measure out, mensurate |
| (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, assess, evaluate, valuate, value |
| (verb) have certain dimensions | - |
| mechanise | (verb) make mechanical | Synonyms: mechanize |
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| (verb) make monotonous; make automatic or routine | Synonyms: mechanize |
| (verb) equip with armed and armored motor vehicles | Synonyms: mechanize, motorise, motorize |