| peddle | (verb) sell or offer for sale from place to place | Synonyms: hawk, huckster, monger, pitch, vend |
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| pedicure | (verb) care for one's feet by cutting and shaping the nails, etc. | - |
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| pee | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| peek | (verb) throw a glance at; take a brief look at | Synonyms: glance, glint |
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| peel | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, skin |
| (verb) come off in flakes or thin small pieces | Synonyms: flake, flake off, peel off |
| peep | (verb) appear as though from hiding | - |
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| (verb) make high-pitched sounds | Synonyms: cheep, chirp, chirrup |
| (verb) speak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice | - |
| (verb) look furtively | - |
| (verb) cause to come into view | - |
| peer | (verb) look searchingly | - |
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| peeve | (verb) cause to be annoyed, irritated, or resentful | - |
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| peg | (verb) stabilize (the price of a commodity or an exchange rate) by legislation or market operations | - |
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| (verb) fasten or secure with a wooden pin | Synonyms: peg down |
| (verb) pierce with a wooden pin or knock or thrust a wooden pin into | - |
| (verb) succeed in obtaining a position | Synonyms: nail, nail down |
| pelt | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pepper |
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| (verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | Synonyms: bombard |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| pen | (verb) produce a literary work | Synonyms: compose, indite, write |
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| penalise | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalize, punish |
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| penalize | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, punish |
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| pencil | (verb) write, draw, or trace with a pencil | - |
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| penetrate | (verb) come to understand | Synonyms: bottom, fathom |
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| (verb) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions | Synonyms: click, come home, dawn, fall into place, get across, get through, sink in |
| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: perforate |
| (verb) insert the penis into the vagina or anus of | - |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) make one's way deeper into or through | - |
| (verb) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members | Synonyms: infiltrate |
| pension | (verb) grant a pension to | Synonyms: pension off |
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| people | (verb) fill with people | - |
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| (verb) furnish with people | - |
| pepper | (verb) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | Synonyms: pelt |
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| (verb) add pepper to | - |
| peptise | (verb) disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | Synonyms: peptize |
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| peptize | (verb) disperse in a medium into a colloidal state | Synonyms: peptise |
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| perambulate | (verb) walk with no particular goal | Synonyms: walk about, walk around |
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| (verb) make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property) | - |
| perceive | (verb) become conscious of | - |
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| (verb) to become aware of through the senses | Synonyms: comprehend |
| perch | (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: rest, roost |
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| (verb) cause to perch or sit | - |
| (verb) to come to rest, settle | Synonyms: alight, light |
| percolate | (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, perk, perk up, pick up |
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| (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, permeate, sink in |
| (verb) cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent | - |
| (verb) prepare in a percolator | - |
| (verb) permeate or penetrate gradually | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) spread gradually | - |
| percuss | (verb) strike or tap firmly | - |
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| peregrinate | (verb) travel around, through, or over, especially on foot | - |
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| perennate | (verb) survive from season to season, of plants | - |
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| perfect | (verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: hone |
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| perforate | (verb) make a hole into or between, as for ease of separation | Synonyms: punch |
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| (verb) pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance | Synonyms: penetrate |
| perform | (verb) carry out or perform an action | Synonyms: do, execute |
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| (verb) give a performance (of something) | - |
| (verb) get (something) done | Synonyms: do |
| (verb) perform a function | - |
| perfume | (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: scent |
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| (verb) fill or impregnate with an odor | Synonyms: aromatise, aromatize |
| perfuse | (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | Synonyms: suffuse |
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| (verb) force a fluid through (a body part or tissue) | - |
| peril | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, queer, scupper |
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| (verb) pose a threat to; present a danger to | Synonyms: endanger, imperil, jeopardise, jeopardize, menace, threaten |
| perish | (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, pop off, snuff it |
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| perjure | (verb) knowingly tell an untruth in a legal court and render oneself guilty of perjury | - |
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| perk | (verb) gain or regain energy | Synonyms: gain vigor, percolate, perk up, pick up |
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| perm | (verb) give a permanent wave to | - |
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| permeate | (verb) pass through | Synonyms: filter, percolate, sink in |
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| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, pervade, riddle |
| (verb) penetrate mutually or be interlocked | Synonyms: interpenetrate |
| permit | (verb) consent to, give permission; permit | Synonyms: allow, countenance, let |
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| (verb) allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting | Synonyms: allow, tolerate |
| (verb) make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen | Synonyms: allow, let |
| permute | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, transpose |
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| perorate | (verb) deliver an oration in grandiloquent style | - |
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| (verb) conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation | - |
| peroxide | (verb) bleach with peroxide | - |
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| perpetrate | (verb) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation | Synonyms: commit, pull |
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| perpetuate | (verb) cause to continue or prevail | - |
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| perplex | (verb) make more complicated | Synonyms: complicate |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
| persecute | (verb) cause to suffer | Synonyms: oppress |
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| perseverate | (verb) repeat a response after the cessation of the original stimulus | - |
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| persevere | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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| persist | (verb) be persistent, refuse to stop | Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persevere |
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| (verb) be in a certain place and not leave | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay put, stick, stick around |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, prevail, run |
| personalise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalize |
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| personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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| personate | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personify |
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| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, pose |
| personify | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personate |
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| (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, embody |
| (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: body |
| perspire | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: sudate, sweat |
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| persuade | (verb) cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm | - |
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| (verb) win approval or support for | Synonyms: carry, sway |
| pertain | (verb) be a part or attribute of | Synonyms: appertain |
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| (verb) be relevant to | Synonyms: bear on, come to, concern, have to do with, refer, relate, touch, touch on |
| perturb | (verb) throw into great confusion or disorder | Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge |
| (verb) cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull | - |
| (verb) disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom | - |
| peruse | (verb) examine or consider with attention and in detail | - |
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| perv | (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: ogle, perve |
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| pervade | (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, riddle |
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| pervaporate | (verb) cause (a liquid) to evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
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| (verb) evaporate through a semipermeable membrane | - |
| perve | (verb) look at with amorous intentions | Synonyms: ogle, perv |
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| pervert | (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: abuse, misuse |
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| (verb) practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive | Synonyms: convolute, sophisticate, twist, twist around |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, profane, subvert, vitiate |
| pester | (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, tease |
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| pestle | (verb) grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar | - |
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| pet | (verb) stroke or caress gently | - |
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| (verb) stroke or caress in an erotic manner, as during lovemaking | - |
| petition | (verb) write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing | - |
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| petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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| (verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
| pettifog | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, quibble, squabble |
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| phase | (verb) adjust so as to be in a synchronized condition | - |
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| (verb) arrange in phases or stages | - |
| philander | (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, romance |
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| (verb) have amorous affairs; of men | Synonyms: womanise, womanize |
| philosophise | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophize |
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| philosophize | (verb) reason philosophically | Synonyms: philosophise |
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| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| phlebotomize | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomise |
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| phonate | (verb) utter speech sounds | Synonyms: vocalise, vocalize |
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| phone | (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, ring, telephone |
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| phosphoresce | (verb) to exhibit phosphorescence | - |
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| photobomb | (verb) to jump into someone's photo | - |
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| photocopy | (verb) reproduce by xerography | Synonyms: run off, xerox |
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| photograph | (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: shoot, snap |
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| (verb) undergo being photographed in a certain way | - |
| photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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| photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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| photoshop | (verb) To digitally alter a photo | - |
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| photostat | (verb) make a copy by means of a Photostat device | - |
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| phrase | (verb) put into words or an expression | Synonyms: articulate, formulate, give voice, word |
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| (verb) divide, combine, or mark into phrases | - |
| pick | (verb) remove in small bits | - |
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| (verb) remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) select carefully from a group | - |
| (verb) harass with constant criticism | Synonyms: blame, find fault |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, piece |
| (verb) hit lightly with a picking motion | Synonyms: beak, peck |
| (verb) look for and gather | Synonyms: cull, pluck |
| (verb) attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example | Synonyms: break up |
| (verb) pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion | Synonyms: pluck, plunk |
| (verb) provoke | - |
| (verb) pay for something | Synonyms: foot |
| (verb) pilfer or rob | - |
| picket | (verb) fasten with a picket | - |
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| (verb) serve as pickets or post pickets | - |
| pickle | (verb) preserve in a pickling liquid | - |
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| picnic | (verb) eat alfresco, in the open air | - |
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| picture | (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, render, show |
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| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| piddle | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee, wee |
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| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle away, trifle, wanton, wanton away |
| piece | (verb) repair by adding pieces | Synonyms: patch |
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| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: nibble, pick |
| (verb) join during spinning | - |
| (verb) to join or unite the pieces of | Synonyms: patch |
| (verb) create by putting components or members together | Synonyms: assemble, put together, set up, tack, tack together |
| pierce | (verb) make a hole into | - |
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| (verb) penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument | Synonyms: thrust |
| (verb) cut or make a way through | - |
| (verb) move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply | - |
| (verb) sound sharply or shrilly | - |
| piffle | (verb) act in a trivial or ineffective way | - |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| pig | (verb) give birth to (piglets) | Synonyms: farrow |
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| (verb) eat greedily | Synonyms: devour, guttle, raven |
| (verb) live like a pig, in squalor | Synonyms: pig it |
| pigeonhole | (verb) treat or classify according to a mental stereotype | Synonyms: stamp, stereotype |
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| (verb) place into a small compartment | - |
| piggyback | (verb) bring into alignment with | - |
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| (verb) support on the back and shoulders | - |
| (verb) haul by railroad car | - |
| (verb) haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars | - |
| (verb) ride on someone's shoulders or back | - |
| pigment | (verb) color or dye with a pigment | - |
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| (verb) acquire pigment; become colored or imbued | - |
| pile | (verb) arrange in stacks | Synonyms: heap, stack |
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| (verb) place or lay as if in a pile | - |
| (verb) press tightly together or cram | Synonyms: jam, mob, pack, throng |