| repoint | (verb) repair the joints of bricks | Synonyms: point |
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| report | (verb) to give an account or representation of in words | Synonyms: account, describe |
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| (verb) make known to the authorities | - |
| (verb) complain about; make a charge against | - |
| (verb) announce one's presence | - |
| (verb) announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding | - |
| (verb) be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism | Synonyms: cover |
| repose | (verb) put or confide something in a person or thing | - |
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| (verb) lie when dead | - |
| (verb) put in a horizontal position | Synonyms: lay, put down |
| (verb) lean in a comfortable resting position | Synonyms: recline, recumb |
| (verb) to put something (eg trust) in something | - |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: reside, rest |
| reposit | (verb) put (something) in a place for storage | - |
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| reposition | (verb) place into another position | - |
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| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, shift |
| repossess | (verb) claim back | Synonyms: reclaim |
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| (verb) regain possession of something | Synonyms: take back |
| repot | (verb) put in a new, usually larger, pot | - |
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| reprehend | (verb) to rebuke or reprimand | - |
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| represent | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: map |
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| (verb) serve as a means of expressing something | - |
| (verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify |
| (verb) point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance | - |
| (verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, present |
| (verb) describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality | - |
| (verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: interpret |
| (verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, play |
| (verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, stage |
| (verb) be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute | - |
| (verb) be representative or typical for | - |
| (verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: defend |
| (verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up |
| (verb) be typical of | Synonyms: exemplify |
| (verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: correspond, stand for |
| repress | (verb) block the action of | - |
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| (verb) put out of one's consciousness | Synonyms: suppress |
| (verb) suppress in order to conceal or hide | Synonyms: muffle, smother, stifle, strangle |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, subdue, subjugate |
| (verb) impede or hinder the natural development or self-expression of | - |
| reprieve | (verb) relieve temporarily | - |
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| (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: respite |
| reprimand | (verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, criminate |
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| (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, scold, take to task, trounce |
| reprint | (verb) print anew | Synonyms: reissue |
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| reprise | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprize |
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| reprize | (verb) repeat an earlier theme of a composition | Synonyms: recapitulate, repeat, reprise |
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| reproach | (verb) express criticism towards | Synonyms: upbraid |
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| reprobate | (verb) reject (documents) as invalid | - |
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| (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, objurgate |
| (verb) abandon to eternal damnation | - |
| reprocess | (verb) use again after processing | Synonyms: recycle, reuse |
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| reproduce | (verb) have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant | Synonyms: multiply, procreate |
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| (verb) repeat after memorization | Synonyms: regurgitate |
| (verb) make a copy or equivalent of | - |
| (verb) recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc. | - |
| reproof | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reprove |
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| reprove | (verb) take to task | Synonyms: admonish, reproof |
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| republish | (verb) revive (a cancelled will or a libel) | - |
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| (verb) publish again | - |
| repudiate | (verb) refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid | - |
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| (verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, renounce |
| (verb) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust | - |
| (verb) refuse to recognize or pay | - |
| repugn | (verb) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation | Synonyms: contend, contest |
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| repulse | (verb) force or drive back | Synonyms: drive back, fight off, rebuff, repel |
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| (verb) cause to move back by force or influence | Synonyms: beat back, drive, force back, push back, repel |
| (verb) be repellent to; cause aversion in | Synonyms: repel |
| repurchase | (verb) buy what had previously been sold, lost, or given away | Synonyms: buy back |
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| repute | (verb) look on as or consider | Synonyms: be known as, esteem, know as, look on, look upon, regard as, take to be, think of |
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| request | (verb) express the need or desire for | Synonyms: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest |
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| (verb) ask (a person) to do something | - |
| (verb) inquire for (information) | - |
| require | (verb) make someone do something | Synonyms: command |
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| (verb) consider obligatory; request and expect | Synonyms: ask, expect |
| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, want |
| (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take |
| requisition | (verb) make a formal request for official services | - |
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| (verb) demand and take for use or service, especially by military or public authority for public service | - |
| requite | (verb) make repayment for or return something | Synonyms: repay |
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| requote | (verb) to quote again | - |
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| reread | (verb) read anew; read again | - |
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| rerun | (verb) cause to perform again | - |
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| (verb) broadcast again, as of a film | Synonyms: rebroadcast |
| (verb) run again for office | - |
| (verb) rerun a performance of a play, for example | - |
| rescale | (verb) establish on a new scale | - |
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| reschedule | (verb) assign a new time and place for an event | - |
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| rescind | (verb) cancel officially | Synonyms: annul, countermand, lift, overturn, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate |
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| rescue | (verb) take forcibly from legal custody | - |
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| (verb) free from harm or evil | Synonyms: deliver |
| reseal | (verb) seal again | - |
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| research | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, search |
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| (verb) attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner | - |
| reseat | (verb) show to a different seat | - |
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| (verb) provide with new seats | - |
| (verb) provide with a new seat | - |
| resect | (verb) surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ | Synonyms: eviscerate |
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| reseed | (verb) maintain by seeding without human intervention | - |
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| (verb) seed again or anew | - |
| resell | (verb) sell (something) again after having bought it | - |
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| resemble | (verb) appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to | - |
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| resent | (verb) feel bitter or indignant about | - |
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| (verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: begrudge |
| reserve | (verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside |
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| (verb) obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance | - |
| (verb) hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency | - |
| (verb) arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance | Synonyms: book, hold |
| reset | (verb) set to zero | - |
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| (verb) adjust again after an initial failure | Synonyms: readjust |
| (verb) set anew | - |
| resettle | (verb) settle in a new place | - |
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| resew | (verb) sew again | - |
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| reshape | (verb) shape anew or differently | - |
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| (verb) shape again or shape differently | Synonyms: remold |
| reship | (verb) place on a ship again or transfer to another ship | - |
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| reshoot | (verb) shoot again | - |
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| reshuffle | (verb) reorganize and assign posts to different people | - |
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| (verb) shuffle again | - |
| reside | (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, shack |
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| (verb) live (in a certain place) | Synonyms: lodge in, occupy |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, rest |
| resift | (verb) sift anew | - |
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| resign | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, submit |
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| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, release, relinquish |
| (verb) leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily | Synonyms: give up, renounce, vacate |
| (verb) give up or retire from a position | Synonyms: leave office, quit, step down |
| resile | (verb) return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed | - |
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| (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, forswear, recant, retract |
| (verb) spring back; spring away from an impact | Synonyms: bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop |
| (verb) pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc. | - |
| resinate | (verb) impregnate with resin to give a special flavor to | - |
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| resist | (verb) stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something | Synonyms: hold out, stand firm, withstand |
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| (verb) withstand the force of something | Synonyms: fend, stand |
| (verb) refuse to comply | Synonyms: balk, baulk, jib |
| (verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: dissent, protest |
| (verb) elude, especially in a baffling way | Synonyms: defy, refuse |
| (verb) resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ | Synonyms: refuse, reject |
| resize | (verb) change the size of; make the size more appropriate | - |
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| resmudge | (verb) smudge again | - |
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| resole | (verb) put a new sole on | Synonyms: sole |
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| resolve | (verb) cause to go into a solution | Synonyms: break up, dissolve |
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| (verb) bring to an end; settle conclusively | Synonyms: adjudicate, decide, settle |
| (verb) reach a decision | Synonyms: purpose |
| (verb) find the solution | Synonyms: solve |
| (verb) understand the meaning of | Synonyms: answer |
| (verb) reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation | Synonyms: conclude |
| (verb) make clearly visible | - |
| resonate | (verb) be received or understood | Synonyms: come across |
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| (verb) sound with resonance | Synonyms: vibrate |
| resorb | (verb) undergo resorption | Synonyms: reabsorb |
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| resort | (verb) move, travel, or proceed toward some place | Synonyms: repair |
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| (verb) have recourse to | Synonyms: fall back, recur |
| resound | (verb) emit a noise | Synonyms: make noise, noise |
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| (verb) ring or echo with sound | Synonyms: echo, reverberate, ring |
| respect | (verb) regard highly; think much of | Synonyms: esteem, prise, prize, value |
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| (verb) show respect towards | Synonyms: abide by, honor, honour, observe |
| respire | (verb) draw air into, and expel out of, the lungs | Synonyms: breathe, suspire, take a breath |
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| (verb) undergo the biomedical and metabolic processes of respiration by taking up oxygen and producing carbon monoxide | - |
| (verb) breathe easily again, as after exertion or anxiety | - |
| respite | (verb) postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution | Synonyms: reprieve |
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| resplend | (verb) be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly | - |
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| respond | (verb) show a response or a reaction to something | Synonyms: react |
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| (verb) respond favorably or as hoped | - |
| (verb) react verbally | Synonyms: answer, reply |
| rest | (verb) be at rest | - |
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| (verb) stay the same; remain in a certain state | Synonyms: remain, stay |
| (verb) take a short break from one's activities in order to relax | Synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather |
| (verb) give a rest to | - |
| (verb) not move; be in a resting position | - |
| (verb) sit, as on a branch | Synonyms: perch, roost |
| (verb) rest on or as if on a pillow | Synonyms: pillow |
| (verb) put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying | - |
| (verb) be inactive, refrain from acting | - |
| (verb) have a place in relation to something else | Synonyms: lie |
| (verb) be inherent or innate in | Synonyms: repose, reside |
| restart | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, resume |
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| (verb) start an engine again, for example | Synonyms: re-start |
| restate | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, retell |
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| restitute | (verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: renovate |
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| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restore |
| restock | (verb) stock again | - |
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| restore | (verb) get or give new life or energy; return to life, regain energy, recuperate | Synonyms: regenerate, rejuvenate |
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| (verb) restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken | Synonyms: bushel, doctor, fix, furbish up, mend, repair, touch on |
| (verb) give or bring back | Synonyms: restitute |
| (verb) bring back into original existence, use, function, or position | Synonyms: reestablish, reinstate |
| (verb) return to its original or usable and functioning condition | Synonyms: reconstruct |
| restrain | (verb) prevent the action or expression of | Synonyms: hold back, keep, keep back |
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| (verb) to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement | Synonyms: confine, constrain, hold |
| (verb) restrict (someone or something) so as to make free movement difficult | Synonyms: cumber, encumber |
| (verb) prevent (someone or something) from doing something | - |
| restrengthen | (verb) make strong again | - |
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| restrict | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, throttle, trammel |
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| (verb) place restrictions on | Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back |
| (verb) place under restrictions; limit access to by law | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) prevent (information) from being circulated or disclosed | - |
| restructure | (verb) construct or form anew or provide with a new structure | Synonyms: reconstitute |
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| resublime | (verb) sublime (a compound) once again | - |
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| resubmit | (verb) submit (information) again to a program or automatic system | Synonyms: feed back |
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| result | (verb) come about or follow as a consequence | - |
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| (verb) issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end | Synonyms: ensue |
| (verb) produce as a result or residue | Synonyms: lead, leave |
| resume | (verb) take up or begin anew | Synonyms: re-start, restart |
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| (verb) return to a previous location or condition | Synonyms: take up |
| (verb) give a summary (of) | Synonyms: sum up, summarise, summarize |
| (verb) assume anew | - |
| resurface | (verb) to come out of obscurity or hiding | - |
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| (verb) cover with a new surface | - |
| (verb) reappear on the surface | - |
| resurge | (verb) rise again | - |
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| resurrect | (verb) cause to become alive again | Synonyms: raise, upraise |
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| (verb) return from the dead | Synonyms: rise, uprise |
| (verb) restore from a depressed, inactive, or unused state | Synonyms: revive |
| resuscitate | (verb) cause to regain consciousness | Synonyms: revive |
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| (verb) return to consciousness | Synonyms: come to, revive |
| resuspend | (verb) put back into suspension | - |
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| ret | (verb) place (flax, hemp, or jute) in liquid so as to promote loosening of the fibers from the woody tissue | - |
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| retail | (verb) sell on the retail market | - |
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| (verb) be sold at the retail level | - |
| retain | (verb) keep in one's mind | - |
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| (verb) secure and keep for possible future use or application | Synonyms: hold, hold back, keep back |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: continue, keep, keep on |
| (verb) hold back within | - |
| retake | (verb) photograph again | - |
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| (verb) capture again | Synonyms: recapture |
| (verb) take back by force, as after a battle | Synonyms: recapture |
| retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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| (verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
| retard | (verb) lose velocity; move more slowly | Synonyms: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up |
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| (verb) cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate | - |
| (verb) slow the growth or development of | Synonyms: check, delay |
| (verb) be delayed | - |
| retch | (verb) eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: barf, be sick, cast, cat, chuck, disgorge, honk, puke, purge, regorge, regurgitate, sick, spew, spue, throw up, upchuck, vomit, vomit up |
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| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: gag, heave |
| retell | (verb) to say, state, or perform again | Synonyms: ingeminate, iterate, reiterate, repeat, restate |
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| (verb) render verbally | Synonyms: recite |
| (verb) make into fiction | Synonyms: fictionalise, fictionalize |