| scorn | (verb) reject with contempt | Synonyms: disdain, freeze off, pooh-pooh, reject, spurn, turn down |
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| (verb) look down on with disdain | Synonyms: contemn, despise, disdain |
| scotch | (verb) make a small cut or score into | - |
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| (verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of | Synonyms: baffle, bilk, cross, foil, frustrate, queer, spoil, thwart |
| scour | (verb) rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid | Synonyms: flush, purge |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: abrade |
| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scrub |
| (verb) examine minutely | - |
| scourge | (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, waste |
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| (verb) whip | Synonyms: flagellate |
| (verb) punish severely; excoriate | - |
| scout | (verb) explore, often with the goal of finding something or somebody | Synonyms: reconnoiter, reconnoitre |
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| scowl | (verb) frown with displeasure | - |
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| scrabble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
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| (verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
| scrag | (verb) strangle with an iron collar | Synonyms: garotte, garrote, garrotte |
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| (verb) wring the neck of | Synonyms: choke |
| scram | (verb) leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form | Synonyms: bugger off, buzz off, fuck off, get |
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| scramble | (verb) make unintelligible | - |
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| (verb) bring into random order | Synonyms: jumble, throw together |
| (verb) stir vigorously | Synonyms: beat |
| (verb) to move hurriedly | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
| scranch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scraunch |
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| scrap | (verb) make into scrap or refuse | - |
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| (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel |
| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, trash |
| scrape | (verb) scratch repeatedly | Synonyms: grate |
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| (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: skin |
| (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scratch, scratch up |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape up, scratch |
| (verb) make by scraping | - |
| (verb) bend the knees and bow in a servile manner | Synonyms: genuflect, kowtow |
| scratch | (verb) cut the surface of; wear away the surface of | Synonyms: scrape, scratch up |
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| (verb) cause friction | Synonyms: chafe, fray, fret, rub |
| (verb) carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface | Synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe |
| (verb) gather (money or other resources) together over time | Synonyms: come up, scrape, scrape up |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, strike |
| (verb) scrape or rub as if to relieve itching | Synonyms: itch, rub |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scrub |
| scraunch | (verb) make a crushing noise | Synonyms: crackle, crunch, scranch |
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| scrawl | (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scribble |
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| screak | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screech, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screech, skreak, squeak, whine |
| scream | (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, shout, shout out, squall, yell |
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| (verb) utter or declare in a very loud voice | Synonyms: yell |
| (verb) make a loud, piercing sound | - |
| screech | (verb) utter a harsh abrupt scream | Synonyms: screak, skreak, skreigh, squawk |
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| (verb) make a high-pitched, screeching noise | Synonyms: creak, screak, skreak, squeak, whine |
| screen | (verb) examine methodically | - |
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| (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: shield |
| (verb) prevent from entering | Synonyms: block out |
| (verb) separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff | Synonyms: riddle |
| (verb) project onto a screen for viewing | - |
| (verb) examine in order to test suitability | Synonyms: screen out, sieve, sort |
| (verb) test or examine for the presence of disease or infection | Synonyms: test |
| screenshot | (verb) to capture an image from a computer's display | - |
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| screw | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, shaft |
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| (verb) tighten or fasten by means of screwing motions | - |
| (verb) cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion | Synonyms: drive in |
| (verb) turn like a screw | - |
| (verb) have sexual intercourse with | Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, sleep together, sleep with |
| scribble | (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
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| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
| scribe | (verb) score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking | - |
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| scrimmage | (verb) practice playing (a sport) | - |
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| scrimp | (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: skimp, stint |
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| scrimshank | (verb) avoid work | - |
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| script | (verb) write a script for | - |
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| scroll | (verb) move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen | - |
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| scrounge | (verb) collect or look around for (food) | Synonyms: forage |
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| (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, shnorr |
| scrub | (verb) wash thoroughly | Synonyms: scrub up |
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| (verb) clean with hard rubbing | Synonyms: scour |
| (verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, cancel, scratch |
| scrunch | (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch up, wrinkle |
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| (verb) sit on one's heels | Synonyms: crouch, hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat |
| (verb) make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants | Synonyms: crump, thud |
| scruple | (verb) have doubts about | - |
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| (verb) raise scruples | - |
| (verb) hesitate on moral grounds | - |
| scrutinise | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinize |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinize, size up, take stock |
| scrutinize | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinise |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinise, size up, take stock |
| scry | (verb) divine by gazing into crystals | - |
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| scud | (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, shoot |
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| (verb) run before a gale | Synonyms: rack |
| scuff | (verb) poke at with the foot or toe | - |
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| (verb) mar by scuffing | - |
| (verb) get or become scuffed | - |
| (verb) walk without lifting the feet | Synonyms: drag |
| scuffle | (verb) fight or struggle in a confused way at close quarters | Synonyms: tussle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: shamble, shuffle |
| scull | (verb) propel with sculls | - |
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| sculpt | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpture |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpture |
| sculpture | (verb) shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it | Synonyms: grave, sculpt |
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| (verb) create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material | Synonyms: sculpt |
| scum | (verb) remove the scum from | - |
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| scupper | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | Synonyms: endanger, expose, peril, queer |
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| (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, waylay |
| scurry | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scuttle, skitter |
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| scuttle | (verb) to move about or proceed hurriedly | Synonyms: scamper, scurry, skitter |
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| scythe | (verb) cut with a scythe | - |
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| seal | (verb) decide irrevocably | - |
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| (verb) hunt seals | - |
| (verb) close with or as if with a seal | - |
| (verb) affix a seal to | - |
| (verb) make tight; secure against leakage | Synonyms: seal off |
| (verb) cover with varnish | Synonyms: varnish |
| seam | (verb) put together with a seam | - |
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| seaplane | (verb) glide on the water in a hydroplane | Synonyms: hydroplane |
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| sear | (verb) make very hot and dry | Synonyms: scorch |
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| (verb) burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color | Synonyms: blacken, char, scorch |
| (verb) cause to wither or parch from exposure to heat | Synonyms: parch |
| (verb) become superficially burned | Synonyms: scorch, singe |
| search | (verb) inquire into | Synonyms: explore, research |
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| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, seek |
| (verb) subject to a search | - |
| (verb) search or seek | Synonyms: look |
| season | (verb) make healthy | Synonyms: harden |
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| (verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, mollify, temper |
| (verb) lend flavor to | Synonyms: flavor, flavour |
| seat | (verb) show to a seat; assign a seat for | Synonyms: sit, sit down |
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| (verb) place or attach firmly in or on a base | - |
| (verb) place in or on a seat | - |
| (verb) provide with seats | - |
| (verb) put a seat on a chair | - |
| (verb) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position | Synonyms: induct, invest |
| (verb) be able to seat | - |
| secede | (verb) withdraw from an organization or communion | Synonyms: break away, splinter |
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| secern | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| secernate | (verb) mark as different | Synonyms: differentiate, distinguish, secern, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
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| seclude | (verb) keep away from others | Synonyms: sequester, sequestrate, withdraw |
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| second | (verb) give support or one's approval to | Synonyms: back, endorse, indorse |
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| (verb) transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment | - |
| secrete | (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: release |
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| (verb) place out of sight; keep secret | - |
| section | (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: segment |
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| sectionalise | (verb) divide into sections, especially into geographic sections | Synonyms: sectionalize |
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| sectionalize | (verb) divide into sections, especially into geographic sections | Synonyms: sectionalise |
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| secularise | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularize |
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| secularize | (verb) make secular and draw away from a religious orientation | Synonyms: secularise |
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| (verb) transfer from ecclesiastical to civil possession, use, or control | Synonyms: desacralize |
| secure | (verb) make certain of | Synonyms: assure, ensure, guarantee, insure |
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| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fasten, fix |
| (verb) fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug | Synonyms: plug, stop up |
| (verb) furnish with battens | Synonyms: batten, batten down |
| (verb) get by special effort | Synonyms: procure |
| (verb) assure payment of | - |
| sedate | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| sediment | (verb) settle as sediment | - |
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| (verb) deposit as a sediment | - |
| seduce | (verb) lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct | - |
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| (verb) induce to have sex | Synonyms: make, score |
| see | (verb) deem to be | Synonyms: consider, reckon, regard, view |
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| (verb) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally | Synonyms: realise, realize, understand |
| (verb) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally | Synonyms: discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, learn, pick up |
| (verb) be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something | Synonyms: ascertain, assure, check, control, ensure, insure, see to it |
| (verb) deliberate or decide | - |
| (verb) make sense of; assign a meaning to | Synonyms: construe, interpret |
| (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, learn, watch |
| (verb) match or meet | - |
| (verb) receive as a specified guest | - |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) come together | Synonyms: come across, encounter, meet, run across, run into |
| (verb) conduct someone someplace | Synonyms: escort |
| (verb) perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight | - |
| (verb) perceive or be contemporaneous with | Synonyms: find, witness |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, take in, view, watch |
| (verb) see and understand, have a good eye | - |
| (verb) observe as if with an eye | - |
| (verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: experience, go through |
| (verb) observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect | Synonyms: examine |
| (verb) date regularly; have a steady relationship with | Synonyms: date, go out, go steady |
| (verb) go to see a place, as for entertainment | Synonyms: visit |
| (verb) go to see for professional or business reasons | - |
| (verb) go to see for a social visit | - |
| (verb) take charge of or deal with | Synonyms: attend, look, take care |
| seed | (verb) inoculate with microorganisms | - |
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| (verb) remove the seeds from | - |
| (verb) sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain | - |
| (verb) distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds | - |
| (verb) go to seed; shed seeds | - |
| (verb) place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth | Synonyms: sow |
| (verb) bear seeds | - |
| (verb) help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money | - |
| seek | (verb) inquire for | - |
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| (verb) try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of | Synonyms: look for, search |
| (verb) go to or towards | - |
| (verb) try to get or reach | - |
| (verb) make an effort or attempt | Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, try |
| seel | (verb) sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons | - |
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| seem | (verb) give a certain impression of being something or having a certain aspect | Synonyms: appear, look |
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| (verb) (of a proposition) seem to be true, probable, or apparent | Synonyms: appear |
| seep | (verb) pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings | Synonyms: ooze |
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| seesaw | (verb) move up and down as if on a seesaw | - |
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| (verb) ride on a plank | Synonyms: teeter-totter, teetertotter |
| (verb) move unsteadily, with a rocking motion | Synonyms: teeter, totter |
| seethe | (verb) boil vigorously | Synonyms: roll |
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| (verb) foam as if boiling | - |
| (verb) be in an agitated emotional state | Synonyms: boil |
| (verb) be noisy with activity | Synonyms: buzz, hum |
| segment | (verb) divide into segments | Synonyms: section |
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| (verb) divide or split up | - |
| segregate | (verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
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| (verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
| (verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
| segue | (verb) proceed without interruption; in music or talk | - |
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| seine | (verb) fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine | - |
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| seize | (verb) capture the attention or imagination of | Synonyms: grab |
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| (verb) affect | Synonyms: clutch, get hold of |
| (verb) take into your hands deliberately | Synonyms: clutch, prehend, take hold, take hold of |
| (verb) take or capture by force | - |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: strike |
| (verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, capture, conquer |
| (verb) take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority | Synonyms: attach, confiscate, impound, sequester |
| (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, assume, take over, usurp |
| select | (verb) pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives | Synonyms: choose, pick out, take |
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| sell | (verb) persuade somebody to accept something | - |
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| (verb) exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent | - |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, trade |
| (verb) give up for a price or reward | - |
| (verb) deliver to an enemy by treachery | Synonyms: betray |
| (verb) be sold at a certain price or in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be responsible for the sale of | - |
| (verb) be approved of or gain acceptance | - |
| sellotape | (verb) fasten or attach with sellotape | Synonyms: scotch tape |
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| semaphore | (verb) convey by semaphore, of information | - |
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| (verb) send signals by or as if by semaphore | - |
| send | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, post |
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| (verb) transfer | Synonyms: get off, send off |
| (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, transmit |
| (verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, post, station |
| (verb) to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: send out |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: ship, transport |
| (verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize |
| senesce | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, mature |
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| sense | (verb) discern | - |
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| (verb) become aware of not through the senses but instinctively | Synonyms: smell, smell out |
| (verb) perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles | Synonyms: feel |
| (verb) detect some circumstance or entity automatically | - |
| sensibilise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensibilize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensify, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensify | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensitise, sensitize |
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| sensitise | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitize |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitize |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitize |
| sensitize | (verb) make sensitive or aware | Synonyms: sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise |
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| (verb) make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen | Synonyms: sensitise |
| (verb) cause to sense; make sensitive | Synonyms: sensitise |
| sensualise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualize |
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| sensualize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, carnalize, sensualise |
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| (verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: carnalize |
| (verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: carnalize |
| sentence | (verb) pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law | Synonyms: condemn, doom |
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| sentimentalise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalize, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalize |
| sentimentalize | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentise, sentimentize |
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| (verb) look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities | Synonyms: sentimentalise |
| sentimentise | (verb) act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | Synonyms: sentimentalise, sentimentalize, sentimentize |
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