| poach | (verb) cook in a simmering liquid | - |
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| (verb) hunt illegally | - |
| pock | (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, scar |
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| pocket | (verb) put in one's pocket | - |
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| (verb) take unlawfully | Synonyms: bag |
| pockmark | (verb) mark with or as if with pockmarks | - |
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| pod | (verb) produce pods, of plants | - |
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| (verb) take something out of its shell or pod | - |
| podcast | (verb) distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer | - |
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| poetise | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetize, verse, versify |
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| poetize | (verb) compose verses or put into verse | Synonyms: poetise, verse, versify |
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| point | (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: sharpen, taper |
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| (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: repoint |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, show |
| (verb) indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle | - |
| (verb) be a signal for or a symptom of | Synonyms: bespeak, betoken, indicate, signal |
| (verb) direct into a position for use | Synonyms: charge, level |
| (verb) be positionable in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) intend (something) to move towards a certain goal | Synonyms: aim, direct, place, target |
| (verb) mark with diacritics | - |
| (verb) mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes | - |
| (verb) mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics | - |
| (verb) direct the course; determine the direction of travelling | Synonyms: channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, steer |
| (verb) sail close to the wind | Synonyms: luff |
| (verb) be oriented | Synonyms: orient |
| poise | (verb) hold or carry in equilibrium | Synonyms: balance |
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| (verb) cause to be balanced or suspended | - |
| (verb) prepare (oneself), often but not necessarily for something unpleasant or difficult | Synonyms: brace |
| (verb) be motionless, in suspension | - |
| poison | (verb) administer poison to | - |
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| (verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
| (verb) kill with poison | - |
| (verb) kill by its poison | - |
| (verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
| poke | (verb) make a hole by poking | - |
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| (verb) poke or thrust abruptly | Synonyms: dig, jab, prod, stab |
| (verb) hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument | Synonyms: pound, thump |
| (verb) stir by poking | - |
| (verb) search or inquire in a meddlesome way | Synonyms: horn in, intrude, nose, pry |
| polarise | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarize |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarize |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarize |
| polarize | (verb) become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | Synonyms: polarise |
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| (verb) cause to concentrate about two conflicting or contrasting positions | Synonyms: polarise |
| (verb) cause to vibrate in a definite pattern | Synonyms: polarise |
| pole | (verb) deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole | - |
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| (verb) propel with a pole | Synonyms: punt |
| (verb) support on poles | - |
| poleax | (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleaxe |
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| poleaxe | (verb) fell with or as if with a poleax | Synonyms: poleax |
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| polemicise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicize, polemise, polemize |
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| polemicize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemise, polemize |
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| polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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| polemize | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemise |
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| police | (verb) maintain the security of by carrying out a patrol | Synonyms: patrol |
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| polish | (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off |
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| (verb) improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine |
| (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen |
| politicise | (verb) give a political character to | Synonyms: politicize |
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| 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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