saber | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
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(verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: sabre |
sabotage | (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, subvert, undermine, weaken |
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sabre | (verb) kill with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
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(verb) cut or injure with a saber | Synonyms: saber |
saccharify | (verb) convert into a simple soluble fermentable sugar by hydrolyzing a sugar derivative or complex carbohydrate | - |
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(verb) sweeten with sugar | Synonyms: sugar |
sack | (verb) put in a sack | - |
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(verb) plunder (a town) after capture | Synonyms: plunder |
(verb) make as a net profit | Synonyms: clear, net, sack up |
(verb) terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position | Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, send away, terminate |
sacrifice | (verb) kill or destroy | - |
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(verb) endure the loss of | Synonyms: give |
(verb) make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals | - |
(verb) sell at a loss | - |
sadden | (verb) come to feel sad | - |
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(verb) make unhappy | - |
saddle | (verb) impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to | Synonyms: burden, charge |
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(verb) put a saddle on | - |
(verb) load or burden; encumber | - |
safeguard | (verb) make safe | - |
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(verb) escort safely | - |
sag | (verb) droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness | Synonyms: droop, flag, swag |
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(verb) cause to sag | Synonyms: sag down |
sail | (verb) travel on water propelled by wind | - |
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(verb) move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions | Synonyms: sweep |
(verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: navigate, voyage |
(verb) traverse or travel on (a body of water) | - |
sailplane | (verb) fly a plane without an engine | Synonyms: soar |
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saint | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, canonize |
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(verb) hold sacred | Synonyms: enshrine |
salaam | (verb) greet with a salaam | - |
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salinate | (verb) make salty | - |
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salivate | (verb) produce saliva | - |
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(verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: drool |
sallow | (verb) cause to become sallow | - |
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salt | (verb) preserve with salt | - |
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(verb) add zest or liveliness to | - |
(verb) sprinkle as if with salt | - |
(verb) add salt to | - |
saltate | (verb) leap or skip, often in dancing | - |
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(verb) move by saltation | - |
salute | (verb) greet in a friendly way | - |
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(verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: present |
(verb) honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers | - |
(verb) express commendation of | - |
(verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, toast, wassail |
(verb) become noticeable | - |
salvage | (verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: scavenge |
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(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salve, save |
salve | (verb) apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing | - |
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(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, save |
samba | (verb) dance the samba | - |
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sample | (verb) take a sample of | Synonyms: taste, try, try out |
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sanctify | (verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, purify |
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(verb) render holy by means of religious rites | Synonyms: bless, consecrate, hallow |
(verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanction |
sanction | (verb) give sanction to | Synonyms: approve, O.K., okay |
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(verb) give religious sanction to, such as through an oath | Synonyms: sanctify |
(verb) give authority or permission to | - |
sand | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sandpaper |
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sandbag | (verb) protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up | - |
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(verb) downplay one's ability (towards others) in a game in order to deceive, as in gambling | - |
(verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | Synonyms: stun |
(verb) treat harshly or unfairly | - |
(verb) compel by coercion, threats, or crude means | Synonyms: dragoon, railroad |
sandblast | (verb) grind with a sandblast | - |
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sandpaper | (verb) rub with sandpaper | Synonyms: sand |
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sandwich | (verb) insert or squeeze tightly between two people or objects | - |
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(verb) make into a sandwich | - |
sanitate | (verb) provide with sanitary facilities or appliances | - |
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sanitise | (verb) make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features | Synonyms: sanitize |
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(verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, hygienize, sanitize |
sanitize | (verb) make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features | Synonyms: sanitise |
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(verb) make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing | Synonyms: hygienise, hygienize, sanitise |
sap | (verb) excavate the earth beneath | - |
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(verb) deplete | Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, tire |
saponify | (verb) convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali | - |
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(verb) become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali | - |
sashay | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, strut, swagger, tittup |
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(verb) move sideways | Synonyms: sidle |
(verb) perform a chasse step, in ballet | Synonyms: chasse |
sass | (verb) answer back in an impudent or insolent manner | - |
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sate | (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, satiate |
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satellite | (verb) broadcast or disseminate via satellite | - |
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satiate | (verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, sate |
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(verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, stuff |
satirise | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: lampoon, satirize |
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satirize | (verb) ridicule with satire | Synonyms: lampoon, satirise |
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satisfice | (verb) decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal | Synonyms: satisfise |
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satisfise | (verb) decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal | Synonyms: satisfice |
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satisfy | (verb) fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction | Synonyms: conform to, fill, fit, fulfil, fulfill, meet |
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(verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: gratify |
(verb) meet the requirements or expectations of | Synonyms: fulfil, fulfill, live up to |
saturate | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | - |
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(verb) infuse or fill completely | Synonyms: impregnate |
sauce | (verb) add zest or flavor to, make more interesting | - |
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(verb) dress (food) with a relish | - |
(verb) behave saucily or impudently towards | - |
saunter | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: stroll |
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saute | (verb) fry briefly over high heat | - |
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savage | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, crucify, pillory |
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(verb) attack brutally and fiercely | - |
save | (verb) make unnecessary an expenditure or effort | Synonyms: make unnecessary |
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(verb) record data on a computer | Synonyms: write |
(verb) to keep up and reserve for personal or special use | Synonyms: preserve |
(verb) accumulate money for future use | Synonyms: lay aside, save up |
(verb) spend less; buy at a reduced price | - |
(verb) retain rights to | Synonyms: hold open, keep, keep open |
(verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, economize |
(verb) bring into safety | Synonyms: bring through, carry through, pull through |
(verb) save from ruin, destruction, or harm | Synonyms: relieve, salvage, salve |
(verb) save from sins | Synonyms: deliver, redeem |
(verb) refrain from harming | Synonyms: spare |
savor | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, relish, savour |
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(verb) taste appreciatively | Synonyms: savour |
(verb) give taste to | Synonyms: savour |
(verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savour, taste |
savour | (verb) derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in | Synonyms: bask, enjoy, relish, savor |
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(verb) taste appreciatively | Synonyms: savor |
(verb) give taste to | Synonyms: savor |
(verb) have flavor; taste of something | Synonyms: savor, taste |
savvy | (verb) get the meaning of something | Synonyms: apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok |
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saw | (verb) cut with a saw | - |
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say | (verb) express in words | Synonyms: state, tell |
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(verb) report or maintain | Synonyms: allege, aver |
(verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out |
(verb) express a supposition | Synonyms: suppose |
(verb) give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority | Synonyms: enjoin, order, tell |
(verb) communicate or express nonverbally | - |
(verb) recite or repeat a fixed text | - |
(verb) indicate | - |
(verb) state as one's opinion or judgement; declare | - |
(verb) utter aloud | - |
(verb) have or contain a certain wording or form | Synonyms: read |
scab | (verb) form a scab | - |
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(verb) take the place of work of someone on strike | Synonyms: blackleg, fink, rat |
scaffold | (verb) provide with a scaffold for support | - |
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scald | (verb) burn with a hot liquid or steam | - |
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(verb) heat to the boiling point | - |
(verb) treat with boiling water | - |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scorch, whip |
scale | (verb) measure with or as if with scales | - |
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(verb) size or measure according to a scale | - |
(verb) remove the scales from | Synonyms: descale |
(verb) pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard | - |
(verb) climb up by means of a ladder | - |
(verb) reach the highest point of | Synonyms: surmount |
(verb) take by attacking with scaling ladders | - |
(verb) measure by or as if by a scale | - |
scallop | (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
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(verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scollop |
(verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scollop |
(verb) decorate an edge with scallops | - |
(verb) bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top | Synonyms: escallop |
scalp | (verb) remove the scalp of | - |
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(verb) sell illegally, as on the black market | - |
scam | (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, swindle, victimize |
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scamp | (verb) perform hastily and carelessly | - |
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scamper | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scurry, scuttle, skitter |
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scan | (verb) obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources | Synonyms: read |
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(verb) read metrically | - |
(verb) make a wide, sweeping search of | - |
(verb) move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image | - |
(verb) examine hastily | Synonyms: glance over, rake, run down, skim |
(verb) examine minutely or intensely | - |
(verb) conform to a metrical pattern | - |
scandalise | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalize, shock |
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scandalize | (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, shock |
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scant | (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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(verb) limit in quality or quantity | Synonyms: skimp |
(verb) work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially | Synonyms: skimp |
scar | (verb) mark with a scar | Synonyms: mark, pit, pock |
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scare | (verb) cause fear in | Synonyms: affright, fright, frighten |
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(verb) cause to lose courage; to be daunted; to be scared away | Synonyms: dash, daunt, frighten away, frighten off, pall, scare away, scare off |
scarf | (verb) wrap in or adorn with a scarf | - |
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(verb) masturbate while strangling oneself | - |
(verb) unite by a scarf joint | - |
scarify | (verb) puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals | - |
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(verb) break up | - |
(verb) scratch the surface of | - |
scarper | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scat, take to the woods, turn tail |
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scat | (verb) flee; take to one's heels; cut and run | Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, take to the woods, turn tail |
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scatter | (verb) cause to separate | Synonyms: break up, disperse |
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(verb) distribute loosely | Synonyms: disperse, dot, dust, sprinkle |
(verb) sow by scattering | - |
(verb) move away from each other | Synonyms: disperse, dissipate, spread out |
(verb) to cause to separate and go in different directions | Synonyms: break up, dispel, disperse, dissipate |
(verb) strew or distribute over an area | Synonyms: spread, spread out |
scavenge | (verb) remove unwanted substances from | Synonyms: clean |
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(verb) feed on carrion or refuse | - |
(verb) clean refuse from | - |
(verb) collect discarded material | Synonyms: salvage |
scend | (verb) rise or heave upward under the influence of a natural force such as a wave | Synonyms: surge |
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scent | (verb) apply perfume to | Synonyms: perfume |
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(verb) catch the scent of; get wind of | Synonyms: nose, wind |
(verb) cause to smell or be smelly | Synonyms: odorize, odourise |
schedule | (verb) plan for an activity or event | - |
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(verb) make a schedule; plan the time and place for events | - |
schematise | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematize |
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schematize | (verb) give conventional form to | Synonyms: schematise |
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(verb) formulate in regular order; to reduce to a scheme or formula | - |
scheme | (verb) form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner | Synonyms: connive, intrigue |
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(verb) devise a system or form a scheme for | - |
schlep | (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, shlep |
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schmoose | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
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schmooze | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, shmoose, shmooze |
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schnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, scrounge, shnorr |
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school | (verb) swim in or form a large group of fish | - |
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(verb) educate in or as if in a school | - |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, train |
schuss | (verb) ski downhill | - |
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scintillate | (verb) be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
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(verb) fluoresce momentarily when struck by a charged particle or high-energy photon | - |
(verb) emit or reflect light in a flickering manner | Synonyms: twinkle, winkle |
(verb) give off | - |
(verb) reflect brightly | Synonyms: coruscate, sparkle |
scissor | (verb) cut with or as if with scissors | - |
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sclaff | (verb) strike (a golf ball) such that the ground is scraped first | - |
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(verb) strike (the ground) in making a sclaff | - |
scoff | (verb) laugh at with contempt and derision | Synonyms: barrack, flout, gibe, jeer |
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(verb) treat with contemptuous disregard | Synonyms: flout |
scold | (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, reprimand, take to task, trounce |
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(verb) show one's unhappiness or critical attitude | Synonyms: grouch, grumble |
scollop | (verb) shape or cut in scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
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(verb) fish for scallops | Synonyms: scallop |
(verb) form scallops in | Synonyms: scallop |
scoop | (verb) get the better of | Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, trump |
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(verb) take out or up with or as if with a scoop | Synonyms: lift out, scoop out, scoop up, take up |
scoot | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scud, shoot |
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scorch | (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, sear |
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(verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: sear |
(verb) become scorched or singed under intense heat or dry conditions | - |
(verb) destroy completely by or as if by fire | - |
(verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: sear, singe |
(verb) subject to harsh criticism | Synonyms: blister, scald, whip |
score | (verb) assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation | Synonyms: grade, mark |
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(verb) make underscoring marks | Synonyms: mark |
(verb) gain points in a game | Synonyms: rack up, tally |
(verb) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance | - |
(verb) make small marks into the surface of | Synonyms: mark, nock |
(verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, seduce |
(verb) write a musical score for | - |