| strangulate | (verb) become constricted | - |
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| (verb) kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air | Synonyms: strangle, throttle |
| (verb) constrict a hollow organ or vessel so as to stop the flow of blood or air | - |
| strap | (verb) secure (a sprained joint) with a strap | - |
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| (verb) sharpen with a strap | - |
| (verb) tie with a strap | - |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, trounce, welt, whip |
| stratify | (verb) render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand | - |
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| (verb) form layers or strata | - |
| (verb) form, arrange, or deposit in layers | - |
| (verb) divide society into social classes or castes | - |
| (verb) develop different social levels, classes, or castes | - |
| straw | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: strew |
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| (verb) cover or provide with or as if with straw | - |
| stray | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, divagate, wander |
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| (verb) wander from a direct course or at random | Synonyms: drift, err |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, swan, tramp, vagabond, wander |
| streak | (verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained | Synonyms: blotch, mottle |
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| (verb) move quickly in a straight line | - |
| (verb) run naked in a public place | - |
| stream | (verb) exude profusely | - |
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| (verb) flow freely and abundantly | Synonyms: well out |
| (verb) to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind | - |
| (verb) move in large numbers | Synonyms: pour, pullulate, swarm, teem |
| (verb) rain heavily | Synonyms: pelt, pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs |
| streamline | (verb) contour economically or efficiently | - |
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| streetwalk | (verb) walk the streets in search of customers | Synonyms: street-walk |
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| strengthen | (verb) give a healthy elasticity to | Synonyms: tone, tone up |
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| (verb) gain strength | - |
| (verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, fortify |
| stress | (verb) to suffer from stress | - |
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| (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate |
| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: accent, accentuate |
| (verb) test the limits of | Synonyms: strain, try |
| stretch | (verb) extend one's limbs or muscles, or the entire body | Synonyms: extend |
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| (verb) extend one's body or limbs | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) become longer by being stretched and pulled | - |
| (verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: elongate |
| (verb) extend the scope or meaning of; often unduly | - |
| (verb) increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance | Synonyms: extend |
| (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones | Synonyms: adulterate, debase, dilute, load |
| (verb) pull in opposite directions | - |
| (verb) extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length | Synonyms: extend, stretch out, unfold |
| (verb) lie down comfortably | Synonyms: stretch out |
| (verb) occupy a large, elongated area | Synonyms: stretch along |
| strew | (verb) spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic) | Synonyms: straw |
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| (verb) cover; be dispersed over | - |
| striate | (verb) mark with striae or striations | - |
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| strickle | (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strike |
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| (verb) level off with a strickle in a measuring container | - |
| stride | (verb) walk with long steps | - |
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| stridulate | (verb) make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures | Synonyms: clitter |
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| strike | (verb) cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp | - |
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| (verb) arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing | - |
| (verb) indicate (a certain time) by striking | - |
| (verb) make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon | - |
| (verb) hit against; come into sudden contact with | Synonyms: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into |
| (verb) affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line | Synonyms: excise, expunge, scratch |
| (verb) pierce with force | - |
| (verb) smooth with a strickle | Synonyms: strickle |
| (verb) hook by a pull on the line | Synonyms: seize |
| (verb) produce by ignition or a blow | - |
| (verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing | Synonyms: coin, mint |
| (verb) disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set | - |
| (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon | Synonyms: affect, impress, move |
| (verb) drive something violently into a location | Synonyms: hit |
| (verb) occupy or take on | Synonyms: assume, take, take up |
| (verb) cause to experience suddenly | Synonyms: come to, hit |
| (verb) find unexpectedly | Synonyms: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon |
| (verb) stop work in order to press demands | Synonyms: walk out |
| (verb) attain | Synonyms: come to |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, shine |
| string | (verb) add as if on a string | Synonyms: string up |
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| (verb) provide with strings | - |
| (verb) thread on or as if on a string | Synonyms: draw, thread |
| (verb) remove the stringy parts of | - |
| (verb) string together; tie or fasten with a string | - |
| (verb) stretch out or arrange like a string | - |
| (verb) move or come along | Synonyms: string along |
| strip | (verb) get undressed | Synonyms: discase, disrobe, peel, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress |
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| (verb) draw the last milk (of cows) | - |
| (verb) take off or remove | Synonyms: dismantle |
| (verb) remove a constituent from a liquid | - |
| (verb) remove the thread (of screws) | - |
| (verb) lay bare | Synonyms: bare, denudate, denude |
| (verb) remove substances from by a percolating liquid | Synonyms: leach |
| (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: disinvest, divest, undress |
| (verb) remove the surface from | - |
| (verb) strip the cured leaves from | - |
| (verb) remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely | Synonyms: clean |
| (verb) steal goods; take as spoils | Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, pillage, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle |
| (verb) take away possessions from someone | Synonyms: deprive, divest |
| stripe | (verb) mark with stripes | - |
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| strive | (verb) to exert much effort or energy | Synonyms: reach, strain |
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| (verb) attempt by employing effort | Synonyms: endeavor, endeavour |
| stroke | (verb) treat gingerly or carefully | - |
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| (verb) strike a ball with a smooth blow | - |
| (verb) row at a particular rate | - |
| (verb) touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions | - |
| stroll | (verb) walk leisurely and with no apparent aim | Synonyms: saunter |
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| strop | (verb) sharpen on a strop | - |
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| structure | (verb) give a structure to | - |
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| struggle | (verb) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight | Synonyms: contend, fight |
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| (verb) to exert strenuous effort against opposition | - |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter |
| (verb) make a strenuous or labored effort | Synonyms: fight |
| strum | (verb) sound the strings of (a stringed instrument) | Synonyms: thrum |
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| strut | (verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, prance, ruffle, sashay, swagger, tittup |
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| stub | (verb) strike (one's toe) accidentally against an object | - |
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| (verb) clear of weeds by uprooting them | - |
| (verb) extinguish by crushing | Synonyms: crush out, extinguish, press out, stub out |
| (verb) pull up (weeds) by their roots | - |
| stucco | (verb) coat with stucco | - |
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| (verb) decorate with stucco work | - |
| stud | (verb) provide with or construct with studs | - |
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| (verb) scatter or intersperse like dots or studs | Synonyms: constellate, dot |
| study | (verb) be a student of a certain subject | Synonyms: learn, read, take |
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| (verb) learn by reading books | Synonyms: hit the books |
| (verb) consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning | Synonyms: analyse, analyze, canvass, examine |
| (verb) be a student; follow a course of study; be enrolled at an institute of learning | - |
| (verb) think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes | Synonyms: contemplate, meditate |
| (verb) give careful consideration to | Synonyms: consider |
| stuff | (verb) fill with a stuffing while cooking | Synonyms: farce |
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| (verb) fill tightly with a material | - |
| (verb) treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting | - |
| (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, satiate, scarf out |
| (verb) cram into a cavity | - |
| (verb) obstruct | Synonyms: block, choke up, lug |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: shove, squeeze, thrust |
| stultify | (verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless | Synonyms: cripple |
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| (verb) cause to appear foolish | - |
| (verb) prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence | - |
| stumble | (verb) make an error | Synonyms: slip up, trip up |
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| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: trip |
| (verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, falter |
| (verb) encounter by chance | Synonyms: hit |
| stump | (verb) remove tree stumps from | - |
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| (verb) cause to be perplexed or confounded | Synonyms: mix up |
| (verb) travel through a district and make political speeches | - |
| (verb) walk heavily | Synonyms: stamp, stomp |
| stun | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stupefy |
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| (verb) hit something or somebody as if with a sandbag | Synonyms: sandbag |
| (verb) overcome as with astonishment or disbelief | Synonyms: bedaze, daze |
| stunt | (verb) perform a stunt or stunts | - |
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| (verb) to look good | - |
| (verb) check the growth or development of | - |
| stupefy | (verb) make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow | Synonyms: stun |
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| (verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, vex |
| (verb) make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation | Synonyms: besot |
| stutter | (verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, falter, stammer |
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| style | (verb) designate by an identifying term | Synonyms: title |
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| (verb) make consistent with certain rules of style | - |
| (verb) make consistent with a certain fashion or style | - |
| stylise | (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalize, stylize |
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| stylize | (verb) represent according to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalize, stylise |
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| stymie | (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymy |
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| stymy | (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of | Synonyms: block, blockade, embarrass, hinder, obstruct, stymie |
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| sub | (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, substitute |
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| subcontract | (verb) work under a subcontract; engage in a subcontract | - |
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| (verb) arranged for contracted work to be done by others | Synonyms: farm out, job |
| subdivide | (verb) divide into smaller and smaller pieces | - |
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| (verb) form into subdivisions | - |
| subdue | (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: chasten, tame |
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| (verb) bring under control by force or authority | Synonyms: conquer, stamp down, suppress |
| (verb) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient | Synonyms: subordinate |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, master, overcome, surmount |
| (verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, mortify |
| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subjugate |
| subedit | (verb) edit and correct (written or printed material) | Synonyms: copyedit, copyread |
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| subject | (verb) make accountable for | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to | - |
| (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subjugate |
| subjoin | (verb) add to the end | - |
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| subjugate | (verb) make subservient; force to submit or subdue | Synonyms: subject |
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| (verb) put down by force or intimidation | Synonyms: keep down, quash, reduce, repress, subdue |
| sublease | (verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublet |
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| sublet | (verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublease |
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| sublimate | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublime |
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| (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, purify |
| (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, subtilize |
| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublime |
| (verb) direct energy or urges into useful activities | - |
| sublime | (verb) vaporize and then condense right back again | Synonyms: sublimate |
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| (verb) change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting | Synonyms: sublimate |
| subluxate | (verb) sprain or dislocate slightly | - |
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| submarine | (verb) attack by submarine | - |
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| (verb) bring down with a blow to the legs | - |
| (verb) throw with an underhand motion | - |
| (verb) control a submarine | - |
| (verb) move forward or under in a sliding motion | - |
| submerge | (verb) fill or cover completely, usually with water | Synonyms: deluge, inundate |
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| (verb) cover completely or make imperceptible | Synonyms: drown, overwhelm |
| (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerse |
| submerse | (verb) put under water | Synonyms: submerge |
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| (verb) sink below the surface; go under or as if under water | Synonyms: submerge |
| submit | (verb) accept as inevitable | Synonyms: reconcile, resign |
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| (verb) accept or undergo, often unwillingly | Synonyms: take |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: posit, put forward, state |
| (verb) refer for judgment or consideration | - |
| (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: accede, bow, defer, give in |
| (verb) yield to the control of another | - |
| (verb) make an application as for a job or funding | Synonyms: put in |
| (verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: present |
| (verb) make over as a return | Synonyms: render |
| (verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, relegate |
| subordinate | (verb) make subordinate, dependent, or subservient | Synonyms: subdue |
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| (verb) rank or order as less important or consider of less value | - |
| suborn | (verb) induce to commit perjury or give false testimony | - |
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| (verb) procure (false testimony or perjury) | - |
| (verb) incite to commit a crime or an evil deed | - |
| subpoena | (verb) serve or summon with a subpoena | - |
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| subrogate | (verb) substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured | - |
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| subscribe | (verb) mark with one's signature; write one's name (on) | Synonyms: sign |
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| (verb) adopt as a belief | Synonyms: support |
| (verb) receive or obtain regularly | Synonyms: subscribe to, take |
| (verb) offer to buy, as of stocks and shares | - |
| (verb) pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals | Synonyms: pledge |
| subserve | (verb) be helpful or useful | - |
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| subside | (verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: lessen |
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| (verb) sink down or precipitate | Synonyms: settle |
| (verb) sink to a lower level or form a depression | - |
| (verb) descend into or as if into some soft substance or place | Synonyms: sink |
| subsidise | (verb) support through subsidies | Synonyms: subsidize |
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| (verb) secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces | Synonyms: subsidize |
| subsidize | (verb) support through subsidies | Synonyms: subsidise |
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| (verb) secure the assistance of by granting a subsidy, as of nations or military forces | Synonyms: subsidise |
| subsist | (verb) support oneself | Synonyms: exist, live, survive |
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| substantiate | (verb) solidify, firm, or strengthen | - |
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| (verb) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts | Synonyms: affirm, confirm, corroborate, support, sustain |
| (verb) make real or concrete; give reality or substance to | Synonyms: actualise, actualize, realise, realize |
| (verb) represent in bodily form | Synonyms: body forth, embody, incarnate |
| substitute | (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items | Synonyms: exchange, interchange, replace |
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| (verb) be a substitute | Synonyms: fill in, stand in, sub |
| (verb) act as a substitute | Synonyms: deputise, deputize, step in |
| subsume | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: colligate |
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| (verb) contain or include | - |
| subtend | (verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: delimit |
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| subtilise | (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilize |
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| subtilize | (verb) make more subtle or refined | Synonyms: rarefy, sublimate |
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| (verb) make (senses) more keen | Synonyms: subtilise |
| (verb) mark fine distinctions and subtleties, as among words | - |
| subtitle | (verb) supply (a movie) with subtitles | - |
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| subtract | (verb) take off or away | - |
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| (verb) make a subtraction | Synonyms: deduct, take off |
| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanize | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanise |
| subvent | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvention, underwrite |
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| subvention | (verb) guarantee financial support of | Synonyms: subvent, underwrite |
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| subvert | (verb) to raze to the ground, also figuratively | - |
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| (verb) cause the downfall of; of rulers | Synonyms: bring down, overthrow, overturn |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, undermine, weaken |
| (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate |
| subvocalise | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalize |
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| subvocalize | (verb) articulate without making audible sounds | Synonyms: subvocalise |
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| succeed | (verb) attain success or reach a desired goal | Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, win |
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| (verb) be the successor (of) | Synonyms: come after, follow |
| succor | (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succour |
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| succour | (verb) help in a difficult situation | Synonyms: succor |
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| succumb | (verb) consent reluctantly | Synonyms: buckle under, give in, knuckle under, yield |
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| (verb) be fatally overwhelmed | Synonyms: yield |
| succuss | (verb) shake; especially (a patient to detect fluids or air in the body) | Synonyms: shake up |
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| suck | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suckle, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) draw into the mouth by creating a practical vacuum in the mouth | - |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, take in, take up |
| (verb) draw something in by or as if by a vacuum | - |
| (verb) provide sexual gratification through oral stimulation | Synonyms: blow, fellate, go down on |
| (verb) be inadequate or objectionable | Synonyms: blow |
| (verb) attract by using an inexorable force, inducement, etc. | Synonyms: suck in |
| suckle | (verb) give suck to | Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, nurse, suck, wet-nurse |
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| (verb) suck milk from the mother's breasts | - |
| suction | (verb) empty or clean (a body cavity) by the force of suction | - |
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| (verb) remove or draw away by the force of suction | - |
| sudate | (verb) excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin | Synonyms: perspire, sweat |
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| suds | (verb) make froth or foam and become bubbly | Synonyms: froth, spume |
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| (verb) wash in suds | - |
| sue | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, litigate, process |
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| suffer | (verb) be in pain | Synonyms: hurt |
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| (verb) undergo (as of injuries and illnesses) | Synonyms: get, have, sustain |
| (verb) feel unwell or uncomfortable | - |
| (verb) get worse in quality | - |
| (verb) be set at a disadvantage | Synonyms: lose |
| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: abide, bear, brook, digest, endure, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, support, tolerate |
| (verb) experience (emotional) pain | - |
| (verb) feel physical pain | Synonyms: ache, hurt |
| (verb) undergo or be subjected to | Synonyms: endure |
| (verb) undergo or suffer | Synonyms: meet |
| (verb) be given to | - |