| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| preheat | (verb) heat beforehand | - |
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| prehend | (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, seize, take hold, take hold of |
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| preisolate | (verb) isolate beforehand | - |
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| prejudge | (verb) judge beforehand, especially without sufficient evidence | - |
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| prejudice | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prepossess |
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| (verb) disadvantage by prejudice | - |
| prelude | (verb) play as a prelude | - |
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| (verb) serve as a prelude or opening to | - |
| premeditate | (verb) consider, ponder, or plan (an action) beforehand | - |
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| (verb) think or reflect beforehand or in advance | - |
| premier | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premiere |
| premiere | (verb) perform a work for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
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| (verb) be performed for the first time | Synonyms: premier |
| premise | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premiss |
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| (verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation | - |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface |
| premiss | (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premise |
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| preoccupy | (verb) engage or engross the interest or attention of beforehand or occupy urgently or obsessively | - |
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| (verb) occupy or take possession of beforehand or before another or appropriate for use in advance | - |
| preordain | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
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| prepare | (verb) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc | Synonyms: fix, gear up, ready, set, set up |
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| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: train |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, train |
| (verb) arrange by systematic planning and united effort | Synonyms: devise, get up, machinate, organise, organize |
| (verb) prepare for eating by applying heat | Synonyms: cook, fix, make, ready |
| (verb) to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery | - |
| (verb) lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord | - |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, train |
| prepay | (verb) pay for something before receiving it | - |
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| preponderate | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, overbalance |
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| prepose | (verb) place before another constituent in the sentence | - |
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| prepossess | (verb) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance | Synonyms: prejudice |
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| (verb) cause to be preoccupied | - |
| (verb) make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand | - |
| (verb) possess beforehand | - |
| prerecord | (verb) record before presentation, as of a broadcast | - |
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| presage | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, prognosticate |
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| prescribe | (verb) issue commands or orders for | Synonyms: dictate, order |
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| (verb) (medicine) order the use of (a treatment, medicine, etc.), usually by written prescription | - |
| (verb) recommend as beneficial | - |
| present | (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, represent |
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| (verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, introduce |
| (verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: deliver |
| (verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: salute |
| (verb) formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. | - |
| (verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, face |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: represent, stage |
| (verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: portray |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show |
| (verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, give |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: submit |
| (verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: award |
| (verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: pose |
| preserve | (verb) prevent (food) from rotting | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction | Synonyms: conserve, keep up, maintain |
| (verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: save |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, continue, uphold |
| (verb) maintain in safety from injury, harm, or danger | Synonyms: keep |
| (verb) keep undisturbed for personal or private use for hunting, shooting, or fishing | - |
| preside | (verb) act as president | - |
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| press | (verb) force or impel in an indicated direction | Synonyms: exhort, urge, urge on |
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| (verb) ask for or request earnestly | Synonyms: adjure, beseech, bid, conjure, entreat |
| (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: weight-lift, weightlift |
| (verb) exert pressure or force to or upon | - |
| (verb) place between two surfaces and apply weight or pressure | - |
| (verb) squeeze or press together | Synonyms: compact, compress, constrict, contract, squeeze |
| (verb) press and smooth with a heated iron | Synonyms: iron, iron out |
| (verb) make strenuous pushing movements during birth to expel the baby | Synonyms: push |
| (verb) press from a plastic | Synonyms: press out |
| (verb) create by pressing | - |
| (verb) crowd closely | - |
| (verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, campaign, crusade, fight, push |
| (verb) be urgent | - |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: weigh |
| pressure | (verb) to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means | Synonyms: coerce, force, hale, squeeze |
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| (verb) exert pressure on someone through threats | Synonyms: blackjack, blackmail |
| pressurise | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurize |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurize |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurize, supercharge |
| pressurize | (verb) increase the pressure in or of | Synonyms: pressurise |
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| (verb) maintain a certain pressure | Synonyms: pressurise |
| (verb) increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | Synonyms: pressurise, supercharge |
| presume | (verb) take liberties or act with too much confidence | - |
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| (verb) take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof | Synonyms: assume, take for granted |
| (verb) constitute reasonable evidence for | - |
| (verb) take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission | Synonyms: dare, make bold |
| presuppose | (verb) require as a necessary antecedent or precondition | Synonyms: suppose |
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| (verb) take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand | Synonyms: suppose |
| pretend | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
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| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| pretermit | (verb) leave undone or leave out | Synonyms: drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook |
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| (verb) disregard intentionally or let pass | - |
| prettify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, fancify |
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| prevail | (verb) use persuasion successfully | - |
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| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: triumph |
| (verb) continue to exist | Synonyms: die hard, endure, persist, run |
| (verb) be valid, applicable, or true | Synonyms: hold, obtain |
| (verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: dominate, predominate, reign, rule |
| prevaricate | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, palter, tergiversate |
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| prevent | (verb) stop (someone or something) from doing something or being in a certain state | Synonyms: keep |
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| (verb) keep from happening or arising; make impossible | Synonyms: forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude |
| preview | (verb) watch (a movie or play) before it is released to the general public | - |
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| previse | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, foresee |
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| (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: forewarn |
| prey | (verb) profit from in an exploitatory manner | Synonyms: feed |
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| (verb) prey on or hunt for | Synonyms: predate, raven |
| price | (verb) ascertain or learn the price of | - |
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| (verb) determine the price of | - |
| prick | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prickle |
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| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, sting |
| (verb) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick | Synonyms: goad |
| (verb) to cause a sharp emotional pain | - |
| (verb) to stick up | Synonyms: cock up, prick up |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: sting, twinge |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prickle |
| prickle | (verb) make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn | Synonyms: prick |
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| (verb) cause a stinging or tingling sensation | Synonyms: tingle |
| (verb) cause a prickling sensation | Synonyms: prick |
| pride | (verb) be proud of | Synonyms: congratulate, plume |
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| prim | (verb) dress primly | Synonyms: prim out, prim up |
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| (verb) contract one's lips | - |
| (verb) assume a prim appearance | - |
| prime | (verb) insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing | - |
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| (verb) fill with priming liquid | - |
| (verb) cover with a primer; apply a primer to | Synonyms: ground, undercoat |
| primp | (verb) dress or groom with elaborate care | Synonyms: dress, plume, preen |
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| prink | (verb) put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive | Synonyms: attire, deck out, deck up, dress up, fancy up, fig out, fig up, get up, gussy up, overdress, rig out, tog out, tog up, trick out, trick up |
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| (verb) dress very carefully and in a finicky manner | - |
| print | (verb) reproduce by printing | Synonyms: impress |
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| (verb) make into a print | - |
| (verb) put into print | Synonyms: publish |
| (verb) write as if with print; not cursive | - |
| prioritise | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritize |
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| prioritize | (verb) assign a priority to | Synonyms: prioritise |
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| prise | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prize, respect, value |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prize, pry |
| (verb) make an uninvited or presumptuous inquiry | Synonyms: pry |
| privatise | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatize |
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| privatize | (verb) change from governmental to private control or ownership | Synonyms: privatise |
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| privilege | (verb) bestow a privilege upon | Synonyms: favor, favour |
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| prize | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, respect, value |
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| (verb) to move or force, especially in an effort to get something open | Synonyms: jimmy, lever, prise, pry |
| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, treasure, value |
| prizefight | (verb) box for a prize or money | - |
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| probate | (verb) establish the legal validity of (wills and other documents) | - |
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| (verb) put a convicted person on probation by suspending his sentence | - |
| probe | (verb) question or examine thoroughly and closely | Synonyms: examine |
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| (verb) examine physically with or as if with a probe | Synonyms: dig into, poke into |
| proceed | (verb) follow a certain course | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, continue, go on |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: continue, go forward, move ahead |
| (verb) follow a procedure or take a course | Synonyms: go, move |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: continue, go along, go on, keep |
| process | (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: treat |
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| (verb) perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information | - |
| (verb) deliver a warrant or summons to someone | Synonyms: serve, swear out |
| (verb) shape, form, or improve a material | Synonyms: work, work on |
| (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, sue |
| (verb) deal with in a routine way | - |
| (verb) march in a procession | Synonyms: march |
| proclaim | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, promulgate |
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| (verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, glorify, laud |
| (verb) declare formally; declare someone to be something; of titles | - |
| (verb) affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of | Synonyms: predicate |
| procrastinate | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, stall |
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| (verb) postpone or delay needlessly | - |
| procreate | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, reproduce |
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| proctor | (verb) watch over (students taking an exam, to prevent cheating) | Synonyms: invigilate |
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| procure | (verb) arrange for sexual partners for others | Synonyms: pander, pimp |
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| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: secure |
| prod | (verb) urge on; cause to act | Synonyms: egg on, incite |
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| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, poke, stab |
| (verb) to push against gently | Synonyms: nudge, poke at |
| produce | (verb) come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) | Synonyms: acquire, develop, get, grow |
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| (verb) create or manufacture a man-made product | Synonyms: create, make |
| (verb) bring forth or yield | Synonyms: bring forth |
| (verb) cause to happen, occur or exist | Synonyms: bring about, give rise |
| (verb) cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques | Synonyms: farm, grow, raise |
| (verb) bring onto the market or release | Synonyms: bring on, bring out |
| (verb) bring out for display | Synonyms: bring forth |
| profane | (verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language | Synonyms: desecrate, outrage, violate |
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| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, subvert, vitiate |
| profess | (verb) practice as a profession, teach, or claim to be knowledgeable about | - |
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| (verb) take vows, as in religious order | - |
| (verb) admit (to a wrongdoing) | Synonyms: concede, confess |
| (verb) confess one's faith in, or allegiance to | - |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: pretend |
| (verb) receive into a religious order or congregation | - |
| (verb) state freely | - |
| professionalise | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalize |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalize |
| professionalize | (verb) make professional or give a professional character to | Synonyms: professionalise |
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| (verb) become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood | Synonyms: professionalise |
| proffer | (verb) present for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: offer |
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| profile | (verb) represent in profile, by drawing or painting | - |
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| (verb) write about | - |
| profit | (verb) make a profit; gain money or materially | Synonyms: turn a profit |
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| (verb) derive a benefit from | Synonyms: benefit, gain |
| profiteer | (verb) make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods | - |
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| prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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| (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
| program | (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: programme |
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| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: programme |
| programme | (verb) arrange a program of or for | Synonyms: program |
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| (verb) write a computer program | Synonyms: program |
| progress | (verb) develop in a positive way | Synonyms: advance, come along, come on, get along, get on, shape up |
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| (verb) form or accumulate steadily | Synonyms: build, build up, work up |
| (verb) move forward, also in the metaphorical sense | Synonyms: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on |
| prohibit | (verb) command against | Synonyms: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, proscribe, veto |
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| project | (verb) present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc. | Synonyms: propose |
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| (verb) regard as objective | Synonyms: externalise, externalize |
| (verb) communicate vividly | - |
| (verb) throw, send, or cast forward | Synonyms: send off |
| (verb) transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) make or work out a plan for; devise | Synonyms: contrive, design, plan |
| (verb) put or send forth | Synonyms: cast, contrive, throw |
| (verb) draw a projection of | - |
| (verb) cause to be heard | - |
| (verb) project on a screen | - |
| (verb) extend out or project in space | Synonyms: jut, jut out, protrude, stick out |
| prolapse | (verb) slip or fall out of place, as of body parts | - |
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| proliferate | (verb) grow rapidly | - |
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| (verb) cause to grow or increase rapidly | - |
| prologise | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologize, prologuize |
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| prologize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologuize |
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| prologuize | (verb) write or speak a prologue | Synonyms: prologise, prologize |
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| prolong | (verb) lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer | Synonyms: draw out, extend, protract |
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| (verb) lengthen or extend in duration or space | Synonyms: keep up, sustain |
| promenade | (verb) take a leisurely walk | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, troop |
| promise | (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: assure |
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| (verb) promise to undertake or give | - |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate |
| (verb) give grounds for expectations | - |
| promote | (verb) make publicity for; try to sell (a product) | Synonyms: advertise, advertize, push |
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| (verb) change a pawn for a better piece by advancing it to the eighth row, or change a checker piece for a more valuable piece by moving it to the row closest to your opponent | - |
| (verb) be changed for a superior chess or checker piece | - |
| (verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, raise, upgrade |
| (verb) contribute to the progress or growth of | Synonyms: advance, boost, encourage, further |
| prompt | (verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, instigate |
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| (verb) assist (somebody acting or reciting) by suggesting the next words of something forgotten or imperfectly learned | Synonyms: cue, remind |
| (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, motivate, move, propel |
| promulgate | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim |
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| (verb) put a law into effect by formal declaration | - |
| pronate | (verb) turn the forearm or the hand so that the palm is directed downwards | - |
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| pronk | (verb) jump straight up | - |
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| pronounce | (verb) pronounce judgment on | Synonyms: judge, label |
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| (verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, say, sound out |
| proof | (verb) make resistant (to harm) | - |
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| (verb) activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk | - |
| (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proofread |
| (verb) knead to reach proper lightness | - |
| (verb) make or take a proof of, such as a photographic negative, an etching, or typeset | - |
| proofread | (verb) read for errors | Synonyms: proof |
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| prop | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop up, shore, shore up |
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| propagandise | (verb) spread by propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |
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| (verb) subject to propaganda | Synonyms: propagandize |