| reverence | (verb) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of | Synonyms: fear, revere, venerate |
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| reverse | (verb) change to the contrary | Synonyms: change by reversal, turn |
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| (verb) turn inside out or upside down | Synonyms: invert, turn back |
| (verb) reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of | Synonyms: invert |
| (verb) rule against | Synonyms: override, overrule, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, revoke, vacate |
| revert | (verb) go back to a previous state | Synonyms: regress, retrovert, return, turn back |
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| (verb) undergo reversion, as in a mutation | - |
| revet | (verb) face with a layer of stone or concrete or other supporting material so as to retain | - |
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| (verb) construct a revetment | - |
| review | (verb) look at again; examine again | Synonyms: reexamine |
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| (verb) look back upon (a period of time, sequence of events); remember | Synonyms: look back, retrospect |
| (verb) hold a review (of troops) | Synonyms: go over, survey |
| (verb) refresh one's memory | Synonyms: brush up, refresh |
| (verb) appraise critically | Synonyms: critique |
| revile | (verb) spread negative information about | Synonyms: rail, vilify, vituperate |
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| revise | (verb) make revisions in | - |
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| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: retool |
| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| revitalise | (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalize |
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| revitalize | (verb) restore strength | Synonyms: regenerate |
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| (verb) give new life or vigor to | Synonyms: revitalise |
| revive | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revivify, vivify |
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| (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: resuscitate |
| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, resuscitate |
| (verb) be brought back to life, consciousness, or strength | - |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: resurrect |
| revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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| revoke | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, rescind, reverse, vacate |
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| (verb) fail to follow suit when able and required to do so | - |
| revolt | (verb) cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of | Synonyms: churn up, disgust, nauseate, sicken |
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| (verb) fill with distaste | Synonyms: disgust, gross out, repel |
| (verb) make revolution | - |
| revolutionise | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionize |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionize |
| revolutionize | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionise |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionise |
| (verb) overthrow by a revolution, of governments | - |
| revolve | (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, rotate |
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| (verb) move in an orbit | Synonyms: orb, orbit |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: roll |
| reward | (verb) strengthen and support with rewards | Synonyms: reinforce |
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| (verb) act or give recompense in recognition of someone's behavior or actions | Synonyms: pay back, repay |
| (verb) bestow honor or rewards upon | Synonyms: honor, honour |
| rewatch | (verb) to watch a show or television one more time | - |
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| rewind | (verb) wind (up) again | - |
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| rewire | (verb) provide with new wiring | - |
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| reword | (verb) express the same message in different words | Synonyms: paraphrase, rephrase |
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| rework | (verb) use again in altered form | Synonyms: make over, retread |
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| rewrite | (verb) write differently; alter the writing of | - |
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| (verb) rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose | - |
| rhapsodise | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodize |
| rhapsodize | (verb) say (something) with great enthusiasm | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
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| (verb) recite a rhapsody | Synonyms: rhapsodise |
| rhumba | (verb) dance the rhumba | Synonyms: rumba |
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| rhyme | (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rime |
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| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rime |
| rib | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, ridicule, roast |
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| (verb) form vertical ribs by knitting | - |
| rice | (verb) sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice | - |
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| rick | (verb) twist suddenly so as to sprain | Synonyms: sprain, turn, twist, wrench, wrick |
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| (verb) pile in ricks | - |
| ricochet | (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, spring, take a hop |
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| rid | (verb) relieve from | Synonyms: disembarrass, free |
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| riddle | (verb) explain a riddle | - |
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| (verb) set a difficult problem or riddle | - |
| (verb) speak in riddles | - |
| (verb) pierce with many holes | - |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: screen |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade |
| ride | (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, tease, twit |
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| (verb) keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot | - |
| (verb) copulate with | Synonyms: mount |
| (verb) be carried or travel on or in a vehicle | - |
| (verb) sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions | Synonyms: sit |
| (verb) move like a floating object | - |
| (verb) climb up on the body | - |
| (verb) sit on and control a vehicle | - |
| (verb) ride over, along, or through | - |
| (verb) continue undisturbed and without interference | - |
| (verb) lie moored or anchored | - |
| (verb) have certain properties when driven | Synonyms: drive |
| (verb) be sustained or supported or borne | - |
| (verb) be contingent on | Synonyms: depend on, depend upon, devolve on, hinge on, hinge upon, turn on |
| ridge | (verb) form into a ridge | - |
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| (verb) spade into alternate ridges and troughs | - |
| (verb) throw soil toward (a crop row) from both sides | - |
| (verb) plough alternate strips by throwing the furrow onto an unploughed strip | - |
| (verb) extend in ridges | - |
| ridicule | (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, roast |
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| riff | (verb) play riffs | - |
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| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riffle, thumb |
| riffle | (verb) shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix | - |
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| (verb) twitch or flutter | Synonyms: flick, ruffle |
| (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, ripple, ruffle, undulate |
| (verb) look through a book or other written material | Synonyms: flick, flip, leaf, riff, thumb |
| rifle | (verb) go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way | Synonyms: go |
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| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, strip |
| rig | (verb) equip with sails or masts | Synonyms: set, set up |
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| (verb) connect or secure to | - |
| (verb) manipulate in a fraudulent manner | Synonyms: manipulate |
| (verb) arrange the outcome of by means of deceit | Synonyms: set up |
| right | (verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, rectify |
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| (verb) regain an upright or proper position | - |
| (verb) put in or restore to an upright position | - |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: compensate, correct, redress |
| rigidify | (verb) become rigid | - |
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| (verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, petrify |
| rile | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: roil |
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| (verb) cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations | Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, nettle, rag, vex |
| rim | (verb) roll around the rim of | - |
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| (verb) furnish with a rim | - |
| (verb) run around the rim of | - |
| rime | (verb) compose rhymes | Synonyms: rhyme |
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| (verb) be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable | Synonyms: rhyme |
| ring | (verb) get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone | Synonyms: call, call up, phone, telephone |
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| (verb) attach a ring to the foot of, in order to identify | Synonyms: band |
| (verb) extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle | Synonyms: border, environ, skirt, surround |
| (verb) sound loudly and sonorously | Synonyms: peal |
| (verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: knell |
| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, resound, reverberate |
| rinse | (verb) rinse one's mouth and throat with mouthwash | Synonyms: gargle |
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| (verb) wash off soap or remaining dirt | Synonyms: rinse off |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: wash |
| riot | (verb) take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot | - |
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| (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, roister |
| rip | (verb) criticize or abuse strongly and violently | - |
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| (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rive |
| (verb) cut (wood) along the grain | - |
| (verb) move precipitously or violently | - |
| (verb) take without the owner's consent | Synonyms: rip off, steal |
| ripen | (verb) grow ripe | - |
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| (verb) cause to ripen or develop fully | Synonyms: mature |
| riposte | (verb) answer back | Synonyms: come back, rejoin, repay, retort, return |
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| (verb) make a return thrust | - |
| ripple | (verb) stir up (water) so as to form ripples | Synonyms: cockle, riffle, ruffle, undulate |
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| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle |
| rise | (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: resurrect, uprise |
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| (verb) get up and out of bed | Synonyms: arise, get up, turn out, uprise |
| (verb) increase in value or to a higher point | Synonyms: climb, go up |
| (verb) become more extreme | Synonyms: heighten |
| (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, mount, wax |
| (verb) rise in rank or status | Synonyms: climb up, jump |
| (verb) exert oneself to meet a challenge | - |
| (verb) become heartened or elated | - |
| (verb) move upward | Synonyms: arise, come up, go up, lift, move up, uprise |
| (verb) increase in volume | Synonyms: prove |
| (verb) come to the surface | Synonyms: come up, rise up, surface |
| (verb) rise to one's feet | Synonyms: arise, get up, stand up, uprise |
| (verb) move to a better position in life or to a better job | Synonyms: ascend, move up |
| (verb) come up, of celestial bodies | Synonyms: ascend, come up, uprise |
| (verb) take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance | Synonyms: arise, rebel, rise up |
| (verb) rise up | Synonyms: lift, rear |
| (verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, originate, spring up, uprise |
| risk | (verb) expose to a chance of loss or damage | Synonyms: lay on the line, put on the line |
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| (verb) take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome | Synonyms: adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, run a risk, take a chance, take chances |
| ritualise | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualize |
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| ritualize | (verb) make or evolve into a ritual | Synonyms: ritualise |
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| rival | (verb) be the rival of, be in competition with | - |
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| (verb) be equal to in quality or ability | Synonyms: equal, match, touch |
| rive | (verb) tear or be torn violently | Synonyms: pull, rend, rip |
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| (verb) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cleave, split |
| rivet | (verb) direct one's attention on something | Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, focus, pore |
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| (verb) hold (someone's attention) | - |
| (verb) fasten with a rivet or rivets | - |
| roach | (verb) cut the mane off (a horse) | - |
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| (verb) comb (hair) into a roach | - |
| roam | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roll, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| roar | (verb) laugh unrestrainedly and heartily | Synonyms: howl |
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| (verb) make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles | Synonyms: howl |
| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, ululate, wail, yaup, yawl |
| (verb) utter words loudly and forcefully | Synonyms: thunder |
| (verb) make a loud noise, as of animal | Synonyms: bellow |
| (verb) act or proceed in a riotous, turbulent, or disorderly way | - |
| roast | (verb) cook with dry heat, usually in an oven | - |
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| (verb) subject to laughter or ridicule | Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, make fun, poke fun, rib, ridicule |
| rob | (verb) take something away by force or without the consent of the owner | - |
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| (verb) rip off; ask an unreasonable price | Synonyms: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, soak, surcharge |
| robe | (verb) clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes | Synonyms: vest |
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| (verb) cover as if with clothing | Synonyms: cloak, clothe, drape |
| rock | (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: shake, sway |
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| (verb) cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: sway |
| rocket | (verb) propel with a rocket | - |
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| (verb) shoot up abruptly, like a rocket | Synonyms: skyrocket |
| roil | (verb) make turbid by stirring up the sediments of | Synonyms: rile |
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| (verb) be agitated | Synonyms: boil, churn, moil |
| roister | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: carouse, riot |
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| roleplay | (verb) perform on a stage or theater | Synonyms: act, play, playact |
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| roll | (verb) execute a roll, in tumbling | - |
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| (verb) take the shape of a roll or cylinder | - |
| (verb) show certain properties when being rolled | Synonyms: roll up |
| (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: seethe |
| (verb) shape by rolling | - |
| (verb) pronounce with a roll, of the phoneme /r/ | - |
| (verb) arrange or coil around | Synonyms: twine, wind, wrap |
| (verb) begin operating or running | - |
| (verb) flatten or spread with a roller | Synonyms: roll out |
| (verb) move by turning over or rotating | Synonyms: turn over |
| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: wheel |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, rove, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, undulate, wave |
| (verb) cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis | Synonyms: revolve |
| (verb) move, rock, or sway from side to side | - |
| (verb) emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound | - |
| (verb) sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity | Synonyms: hustle, pluck |
| (verb) occur in soft rounded shapes | Synonyms: undulate |
| rollick | (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, romp, run around, skylark, sport |
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| romance | (verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
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| (verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
| (verb) have a love affair with | - |
| (verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
| romanticise | (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticize |
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| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticize |
| romanticize | (verb) act in a romantic way | - |
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| (verb) make romantic in style | Synonyms: romanticise |
| (verb) interpret romantically | Synonyms: glamorize, glamourise, romanticise |
| romp | (verb) win easily | - |
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| (verb) play boisterously | Synonyms: cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, gambol, lark, lark about, rollick, run around, skylark, sport |
| (verb) run easily and fairly fast | - |
| roneo | (verb) make copies on a Roneograph | - |
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| roof | (verb) provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof | - |
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| rook | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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| room | (verb) live and take one's meals at or in | Synonyms: board |
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| roost | (verb) settle down or stay, as if on a roost | - |
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| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, rest |
| root | (verb) take root and begin to grow | - |
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| (verb) cause to take roots | - |
| (verb) become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style | Synonyms: settle, settle down, steady down, take root |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: rootle, rout |
| (verb) plant by the roots | - |
| (verb) cheer for | - |
| (verb) come into existence, originate | - |
| rootle | (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rout |
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| rope | (verb) fasten with a rope | Synonyms: leash |
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| (verb) catch with a lasso | Synonyms: lasso |
| rosin | (verb) rub rosin onto | - |
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| rot | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: waste |
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| (verb) break down | Synonyms: decompose, molder, moulder |
| rotate | (verb) plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession | - |
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| (verb) perform a job or duty on a rotating basis | - |
| (verb) cause to turn on an axis or center | Synonyms: circumvolve |
| (verb) turn on or around an axis or a center | Synonyms: go around, revolve |
| (verb) turn outward | Synonyms: splay, spread out, turn out |
| (verb) exchange on a regular basis | - |
| rouge | (verb) redden by applying rouge to | - |
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| rough | (verb) prepare in preliminary or sketchy form | Synonyms: rough in, rough out |
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| roughcast | (verb) hew roughly, without finishing the surface | Synonyms: rough-hew |
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| (verb) apply roughcast to | - |
| (verb) shape roughly | - |
| roughen | (verb) make rough or rougher | - |
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| roughhouse | (verb) engage in rough or disorderly play | - |
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| round | (verb) become round, plump, or shapely | Synonyms: fill out, flesh out |
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| (verb) make round | Synonyms: round off, round out |
| (verb) bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state | Synonyms: brush up, polish, polish up, round off |
| (verb) express as a round number | Synonyms: round down, round off, round out |
| (verb) pronounce with rounded lips | Synonyms: labialise, labialize |
| (verb) attack in speech or writing | Synonyms: assail, assault, attack, lash out, snipe |
| (verb) wind around; move along a circular course | - |
| rouse | (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, wake, wake up, waken |
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| (verb) cause to be agitated, excited, or roused | Synonyms: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, turn on |
| (verb) force or drive out | Synonyms: drive out, force out, rout out |
| (verb) become active | Synonyms: bestir |
| rout | (verb) cause to flee | Synonyms: expel, rout out |
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| (verb) defeat disastrously | Synonyms: spread-eagle, spreadeagle |
| (verb) make a groove in | Synonyms: gouge |
| (verb) dig with the snout | Synonyms: root, rootle |
| route | (verb) send via a specific route | - |
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| (verb) divert in a specified direction | - |
| (verb) send documents or materials to appropriate destinations | - |
| rove | (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, stray, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
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| row | (verb) propel with oars | - |
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| rub | (verb) move over something with pressure | - |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, scratch |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, scratch |