| politicize | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicise |
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| politick | (verb) engage in political activities | - |
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| polka | (verb) dance a polka | - |
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| poll | (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: pollard |
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| (verb) get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions | Synonyms: canvass |
| (verb) vote in an election at a polling station | - |
| (verb) get the votes of | - |
| pollard | (verb) convert into a pollard | Synonyms: poll |
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| pollenate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollinate |
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| pollinate | (verb) fertilize by transferring pollen | Synonyms: cross-pollinate, pollenate |
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| pollute | (verb) make impure | Synonyms: contaminate, foul |
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| polychrome | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychromise, polychromize |
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| polychromise | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromize |
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| polychromize | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromise |
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| polymerise | (verb) undergo polymerization | Synonyms: polymerize |
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| (verb) cause (a compound) to polymerize | Synonyms: polymerize |
| polymerize | (verb) undergo polymerization | Synonyms: polymerise |
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| (verb) cause (a compound) to polymerize | Synonyms: polymerise |
| pomade | (verb) apply pomade to (hair) | - |
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| pommel | (verb) strike, usually with the fist | Synonyms: biff, pummel |
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| pompadour | (verb) style women's hair in a pompadour | - |
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| ponder | (verb) reflect deeply on a subject | Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over |
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| poniard | (verb) stab with a poniard | - |
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| pontificate | (verb) talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner | - |
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| (verb) administer a pontifical office | - |
| pooch | (verb) round one's lips as if intending to kiss | Synonyms: pooch out |
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| pool | (verb) join or form a pool of people | - |
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| (verb) combine into a common fund | - |
| pop | (verb) burst open with a sharp, explosive sound | - |
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| (verb) cause to burst with a loud, explosive sound | - |
| (verb) fire a weapon with a loud explosive noise | - |
| (verb) take drugs, especially orally | - |
| (verb) drink down entirely | Synonyms: belt down, bolt down, down, drink down, kill, pour down, toss off |
| (verb) hit a pop-fly | - |
| (verb) put or thrust suddenly and forcefully | - |
| (verb) hit or strike | - |
| (verb) release suddenly | - |
| (verb) bulge outward | Synonyms: bug out, bulge, bulge out, come out, pop out, protrude, start |
| (verb) make a sharp explosive noise | - |
| (verb) appear suddenly or unexpectedly; happen unexpectedly | Synonyms: burst out, crop up, pop out, pop up |
| (verb) cause to make a sharp explosive sound | - |
| popularise | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularize |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularize, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| popularize | (verb) make understandable to the general public | Synonyms: popularise |
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| (verb) cater to popular taste to make popular and present to the general public; bring into general or common use | Synonyms: generalise, generalize, popularise, vulgarise, vulgarize |
| populate | (verb) fill with inhabitants | - |
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| (verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: dwell, inhabit, live |
| porcelainize | (verb) coat with porcelain or a porcelain-like surface | - |
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| pore | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, rivet |
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| port | (verb) modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | - |
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| (verb) drink port | - |
| (verb) carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons | - |
| (verb) carry, bear, convey, or bring | - |
| (verb) turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) put or turn on the left side, of a ship | - |
| (verb) land at or reach a port | - |
| (verb) bring to port | - |
| portend | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
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| porter | (verb) carry luggage or supplies | - |
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| portion | (verb) give out | Synonyms: allot, assign |
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| portray | (verb) portray in words | - |
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| (verb) make a portrait of | Synonyms: depict, limn |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: impersonate |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: present |
| pose | (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
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| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, personate |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, position, put, set |
| (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, posture, sit |
| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: posture |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: present |
| posit | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
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| (verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
| position | (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set |
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| (verb) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | - |
| possess | (verb) have ownership or possession of | Synonyms: have, own |
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| (verb) have as an attribute, knowledge, or skill | - |
| (verb) enter into and control, as of emotions or ideas | - |
| post | (verb) display, as of records in sports games | - |
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| (verb) mark or expose as infamous | Synonyms: brand |
| (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, send |
| (verb) publicize with, or as if with, a poster | - |
| (verb) To post a message on a social media website | - |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, send, station |
| (verb) place so as to be noticed | Synonyms: put up |
| (verb) mark with a stake | Synonyms: stake |
| (verb) affix in a public place or for public notice | - |
| (verb) ride Western style and bob up and down in the saddle in rhythm with a horse's trotting gait | - |
| (verb) transfer (entries) from one account book to another | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) enter on a public list | - |
| (verb) assign to a post; put into a post | - |
| postdate | (verb) establish something as being later relative to something else | - |
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| (verb) be later in time | Synonyms: follow |
| postmark | (verb) stamp with a postmark to indicate date and time of mailing | Synonyms: frank |
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| postpone | (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, shelve, table |
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| postpose | (verb) place after another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| postulate | (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: posit |
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| (verb) maintain or assert | Synonyms: contend |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take |
| posture | (verb) assume a posture as for artistic purposes | Synonyms: model, pose, sit |
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| (verb) behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others | Synonyms: pose |
| pot | (verb) plant in a pot | - |
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| potentiate | (verb) increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) | - |
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| pother | (verb) make a fuss; be agitated | Synonyms: dither, flap |
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| (verb) make upset or troubled | - |
| potter | (verb) move around aimlessly | Synonyms: potter around, putter, putter around |
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| (verb) do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly | Synonyms: mess around, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around, putter, tinker |
| (verb) work lightly | Synonyms: putter |
| pouch | (verb) swell or protrude outwards | Synonyms: bulge, protrude |
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| (verb) put into a small bag | - |
| (verb) send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels | - |
| poultice | (verb) dress by covering with a therapeutic substance | Synonyms: plaster |
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| pounce | (verb) move down on as if in an attack | Synonyms: swoop |
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| pound | (verb) break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle | - |
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| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: poke, thump |
| (verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact | Synonyms: ram, ram down |
| (verb) place or shut up in a pound | Synonyms: impound |
| (verb) shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits | Synonyms: pound up |
| (verb) partition off into compartments | Synonyms: pound off |
| (verb) move rhythmically | Synonyms: beat, thump |
| (verb) move heavily or clumsily | Synonyms: lumber |
| pour | (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pullulate, stream, swarm, teem |
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| (verb) flow in a spurt | - |
| (verb) cause to run | - |
| (verb) pour out gradually, so as to separate out sediment | Synonyms: decant, pour out |
| (verb) supply in large amounts or quantities | - |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
| pout | (verb) make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip | Synonyms: mop, mow |
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| (verb) be in a huff and display one's displeasure | Synonyms: brood, sulk |
| powder | (verb) apply powder to | - |
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| (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powderise, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
| powderise | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderize, pulverise, pulverize |
| powderize | (verb) make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust | Synonyms: powder, powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
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| (verb) become powder or dust | Synonyms: powderise, pulverise, pulverize |
| power | (verb) supply the force or power for the functioning of | - |
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| powerwash | (verb) wash before painting to remove old paint and mildew | Synonyms: pressure-wash |
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| powwow | (verb) hold a powwow, talk, conference or meeting | - |
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| practice | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practise |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practise, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practise |
| (verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, use |
| (verb) engage in or perform | Synonyms: commit |
| practise | (verb) learn by repetition | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice |
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| (verb) engage in a rehearsal (of) | Synonyms: practice, rehearse |
| (verb) carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions | Synonyms: do, exercise, practice |
| praise | (verb) express approval of | - |
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| prance | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
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| (verb) ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward | - |
| (verb) cause (a horse) to bound spring forward | - |
| (verb) spring forward on the hind legs | - |
| prang | (verb) crash | - |
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| prank | (verb) dress up showily | - |
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| (verb) dress or decorate showily or gaudily | - |
| prate | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| prattle | (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| prawn | (verb) fish for prawns | - |
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| pray | (verb) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer | - |
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| (verb) call upon in supplication; entreat | Synonyms: beg, implore |
| preach | (verb) speak, plead, or argue in favor of | Synonyms: advocate |
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| (verb) deliver a sermon | Synonyms: prophesy |
| preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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| preamble | (verb) make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document | - |
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| prearrange | (verb) arrange beforehand | - |
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| preassemble | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: prefabricate |
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| precede | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, preface, premise |
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| (verb) move ahead (of others) in time or space | Synonyms: lead |
| (verb) be the predecessor of | Synonyms: come before |
| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, predate |
| (verb) come before | Synonyms: predate |
| precess | (verb) move in a gyrating fashion | - |
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| precipitate | (verb) separate as a fine suspension of solid particles | - |
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| (verb) hurl or throw violently | - |
| (verb) bring about abruptly | - |
| (verb) fall vertically, sharply, or headlong | - |
| (verb) fall from clouds | Synonyms: come down, fall |
| precis | (verb) make a summary (of) | - |
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| preclude | (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, prevent |
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| (verb) make impossible, especially beforehand | Synonyms: close out, rule out |
| preconceive | (verb) conceive beforehand | - |
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| precondition | (verb) put into the required condition beforehand | - |
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| precook | (verb) cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long | - |
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| predate | (verb) establish something as being earlier relative to something else | Synonyms: antedate, foredate |
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| (verb) be earlier in time; go back further | Synonyms: antecede, antedate, forego, forgo, precede |
| (verb) come before | Synonyms: precede |
| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: prey, raven |
| predecease | (verb) die before; die earlier than | - |
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| predestinate | (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
| (verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
| predetermine | (verb) determine beforehand | - |
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| (verb) cause to be biased | Synonyms: bias |
| predicate | (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: proclaim |
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| (verb) involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic | Synonyms: connote |
| (verb) make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition | - |
| predict | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate |
| predigest | (verb) digest (food) beforehand | - |
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| predispose | (verb) make susceptible | - |
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| predominate | (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, prevail, reign, rule |
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| (verb) appear very large or occupy a commanding position | Synonyms: hulk, loom, tower |
| preempt | (verb) acquire for oneself before others can do so | - |
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| (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge | - |
| (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land) | - |
| (verb) take the place of or have precedence over | Synonyms: displace |
| preen | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, primp |
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| (verb) pride or congratulate (oneself) for an achievement | Synonyms: congratulate |
| (verb) clean with one's bill | Synonyms: plume |
| preexist | (verb) exist beforehand or prior to a certain point in time | - |
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| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
| preface | (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise |
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| prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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| (verb) like better; value more highly | - |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| (verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| prefix | (verb) attach a prefix to | - |
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