| shack | (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: trail |
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| (verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, domiciliate, reside |
| shackle | (verb) restrain with fetters | Synonyms: fetter |
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| (verb) bind the arms of | Synonyms: pinion |
| shade | (verb) pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree | - |
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| (verb) vary slightly | - |
| (verb) protect from light, heat, or view | - |
| (verb) represent the effect of shade or shadow on | Synonyms: fill in |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade off, shadow |
| shadow | (verb) follow, usually without the person's knowledge | - |
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| (verb) make appear small by comparison | Synonyms: dwarf, overshadow |
| (verb) cast a shadow over | Synonyms: shade, shade off |
| shadowbox | (verb) go through boxing motions without an opponent | - |
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| shaft | (verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit | Synonyms: cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw |
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| (verb) equip with a shaft | - |
| shag | (verb) dance the shag | - |
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| shake | (verb) move with or as if with a tremor | Synonyms: didder |
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| (verb) undermine or cause to waver | - |
| (verb) bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking | - |
| (verb) shake (a body part) to communicate a greeting, feeling, or cognitive state | - |
| (verb) stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of | Synonyms: excite, shake up, stimulate, stir |
| (verb) move or cause to move back and forth | Synonyms: agitate |
| (verb) shake or vibrate rapidly and intensively | Synonyms: judder |
| (verb) move back and forth or sideways | Synonyms: rock, sway |
| (verb) get rid of | Synonyms: escape from, shake off, throw off |
| shallow | (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
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| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shoal |
| sham | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, pretend |
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| (verb) make a pretence of | Synonyms: assume, feign, simulate |
| shamanise | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanize |
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| shamanize | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanise |
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| shamble | (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shuffle |
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| shame | (verb) surpass or beat by a wide margin | - |
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| (verb) cause to be ashamed | - |
| (verb) bring shame or dishonor upon | Synonyms: attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour |
| (verb) compel through a sense of shame | - |
| shampoo | (verb) use shampoo on (hair) | - |
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| shanghai | (verb) take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship | Synonyms: impress |
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| shank | (verb) hit (a golf ball) with the heel of a club, causing the ball to veer in the wrong direction | - |
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| shape | (verb) give shape or form to | Synonyms: form |
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| (verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, influence, mold, mould, regulate |
| (verb) make something, usually for a specific function | Synonyms: forge, form, mold, mould, work |
| share | (verb) communicate | - |
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| (verb) give out as one's portion or share | Synonyms: apportion, deal, divvy up, portion out |
| (verb) have, give, or receive a share of | Synonyms: partake, partake in |
| (verb) use jointly or in common | - |
| (verb) have in common | - |
| shark | (verb) hunt shark | - |
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| (verb) play the shark; act with trickery | - |
| sharpen | (verb) become sharp or sharper | - |
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| (verb) make crisp or more crisp and precise | - |
| (verb) raise the pitch of (musical notes) | - |
| (verb) put (an image) into focus | Synonyms: focalise, focalize, focus |
| (verb) make (one's senses) more acute | Synonyms: heighten |
| (verb) give a point to | Synonyms: point, taper |
| (verb) make sharp or sharper | - |
| (verb) make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper | - |
| sharpshoot | (verb) aim and shoot with great precision | Synonyms: snipe |
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| shart | (verb) to intend to release flatulence but actually defecate | - |
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| shatter | (verb) break into many pieces | - |
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| (verb) cause to break into many pieces | - |
| (verb) damage or destroy | - |
| shave | (verb) remove body hair with a razor | - |
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| (verb) touch the surface of lightly | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: trim |
| (verb) cut or remove with or as if with a plane | Synonyms: plane |
| (verb) make shavings of or reduce to shavings | - |
| (verb) cut the price of | Synonyms: knock off |
| shear | (verb) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain | - |
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| (verb) cut with shears | - |
| (verb) cut or cut through with shears | - |
| (verb) shear the wool from | Synonyms: fleece |
| sheathe | (verb) enclose with a sheath | - |
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| (verb) cover with a protective sheathing | - |
| (verb) plunge or bury (a knife or sword) in flesh | - |
| shed | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, slough |
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| (verb) cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over | Synonyms: disgorge, spill |
| (verb) to remove | Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, throw, throw away, throw off |
| (verb) pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: pour forth, spill |
| sheer | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer |
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| (verb) cause to sheer | - |
| sheet | (verb) cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping | - |
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| (verb) come down as if in sheets | - |
| shell | (verb) remove from its shell or outer covering | - |
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| (verb) remove the husks from | Synonyms: husk |
| (verb) use explosives on | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, trounce, vanquish |
| (verb) hit the pitches of hard and regularly | - |
| (verb) look for and collect shells by the seashore | - |
| (verb) fall out of the pod or husk | - |
| (verb) create by using explosives | Synonyms: blast |
| shellac | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellack |
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| shellack | (verb) cover with shellac | Synonyms: shellac |
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| shelter | (verb) invest (money) so that it is not taxable | - |
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| (verb) provide shelter for | - |
| shelve | (verb) place on a shelf | - |
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| (verb) hold back to a later time | Synonyms: defer, hold over, postpone, prorogue, put off, put over, remit, set back, table |
| shepherd | (verb) tend as a shepherd, as of sheep or goats | - |
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| (verb) watch over like a shepherd, as a teacher of her pupils | - |
| shew | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, show |
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| shield | (verb) protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm | Synonyms: screen |
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| (verb) hold back a thought or feeling about | Synonyms: harbor, harbour |
| shift | (verb) make a shift in or exchange of | Synonyms: change over, switch |
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| (verb) move and exchange for another | - |
| (verb) lay aside, abandon, or leave for another | Synonyms: change, switch |
| (verb) move from one setting or context to another | - |
| (verb) change in quality | - |
| (verb) change gears | - |
| (verb) change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change | - |
| (verb) use a shift key on a keyboard | - |
| (verb) change place or direction | Synonyms: dislodge, reposition |
| (verb) move very slightly | Synonyms: agitate, budge, stir |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) move abruptly | Synonyms: lurch, pitch |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, tilt, wobble |
| shill | (verb) act as a shill | - |
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| shillyshally | (verb) be uncertain and vague | - |
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| (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, stall |
| shimmer | (verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk | - |
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| (verb) shine with a weak or fitful light | - |
| shimmy | (verb) dance a shimmy | - |
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| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: wobble |
| shin | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| shine | (verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
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| (verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
| (verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
| (verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
| (verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
| (verb) be clear and obvious | - |
| (verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
| (verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
| (verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
| shingle | (verb) cover with shingles | - |
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| shinny | (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
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| ship | (verb) place on board a ship | - |
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| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, transport |
| (verb) go on board | Synonyms: embark |
| (verb) travel by ship | - |
| (verb) hire for work on a ship | - |
| shipwreck | (verb) destroy a ship | - |
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| (verb) cause to experience shipwreck | - |
| (verb) ruin utterly | - |
| (verb) suffer failure, as in some enterprise | - |
| shirk | (verb) avoid dealing with | - |
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| (verb) avoid (one's assigned duties) | Synonyms: fiddle, goldbrick, shrink from |
| shirr | (verb) bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set | - |
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| shirt | (verb) put a shirt on | - |
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| shit | (verb) have a bowel movement | Synonyms: ca-ca, crap, defecate, make, stool, take a crap, take a shit |
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| (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shop, snitch, stag, tell on |
| shiver | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shudder |
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| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shudder, thrill, throb |
| shlep | (verb) pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance | Synonyms: pull along, schlep |
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| (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: traipse |
| shmoose | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmooze |
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| shmooze | (verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose |
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| shnorr | (verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling | Synonyms: cadge, schnorr, scrounge |
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| shoal | (verb) become shallow | Synonyms: shallow |
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| (verb) make shallow | Synonyms: shallow |
| shock | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: traumatise, traumatize |
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| (verb) subject to electrical shocks | - |
| (verb) collect or gather into shocks | - |
| (verb) collide violently | - |
| (verb) strike with horror or terror | - |
| (verb) surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off | Synonyms: ball over, blow out of the water, floor, take aback |
| (verb) strike with disgust or revulsion | Synonyms: appal, appall, offend, outrage, scandalise, scandalize |
| shoe | (verb) furnish with shoes | - |
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| shoehorn | (verb) fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited | - |
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| shoetree | (verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: tree |
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| shoo | (verb) drive away by crying `shoo!' | Synonyms: shoo away, shoo off |
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| shoot | (verb) give an injection to | Synonyms: inject |
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| (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, sprout, spud |
| (verb) measure the altitude of by using a sextant | - |
| (verb) record on photographic film | Synonyms: photograph, snap |
| (verb) make a film or photograph of something | Synonyms: film, take |
| (verb) utter fast and forcefully | - |
| (verb) fire a shot; release | Synonyms: blast |
| (verb) hit with a missile from a weapon | Synonyms: hit, pip |
| (verb) score | - |
| (verb) spend frivolously and unwisely | Synonyms: dissipate, fool, fool away, fritter, fritter away, frivol away |
| (verb) force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing | Synonyms: inject |
| (verb) throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective | - |
| (verb) throw dice, as in a crap game | - |
| (verb) variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors | - |
| (verb) run or move very quickly or hastily | Synonyms: dart, dash, flash, scoot, scud |
| (verb) move quickly and violently | Synonyms: buck, charge, shoot down, tear |
| (verb) send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly | - |
| (verb) cause a sharp and sudden pain in | - |
| (verb) kill by firing a missile | Synonyms: pip |
| (verb) emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully | - |
| shop | (verb) give away information about somebody | Synonyms: betray, denounce, give away, grass, rat, shit, snitch, stag, tell on |
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| (verb) do one's shopping | - |
| (verb) shop around; not necessarily buying | Synonyms: browse |
| (verb) do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of | Synonyms: buy at, frequent, patronise, patronize, shop at, sponsor |
| shoplift | (verb) steal in a store | - |
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| shore | (verb) support by placing against something solid or rigid | Synonyms: prop, prop up, shore up |
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| (verb) arrive on shore | Synonyms: land, set ashore |
| (verb) serve as a shore to | - |
| short | (verb) create a short circuit in | Synonyms: short-circuit |
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| (verb) cheat someone by not returning him enough money | Synonyms: short-change |
| shorten | (verb) become short or shorter | - |
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| (verb) make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration | - |
| (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce |
| (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate |
| (verb) make short or shorter | - |
| shortlist | (verb) put someone or something on a short list | - |
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| shoulder | (verb) push with the shoulders | - |
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| (verb) carry a burden, either real or metaphoric | - |
| (verb) lift onto one's shoulders | - |
| shout | (verb) utter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) | - |
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| (verb) utter a sudden loud cry | Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout out, squall, yell |
| (verb) utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy | Synonyms: call out, cry, cry out, exclaim, outcry |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: abuse, blackguard, clapperclaw |
| shove | (verb) push roughly | - |
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| (verb) come into rough contact with while moving | Synonyms: jostle |
| (verb) press or force | Synonyms: squeeze, stuff, thrust |
| shovel | (verb) dig with or as if with a shovel | - |
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| show | (verb) establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment | Synonyms: demonstrate, establish, prove, shew |
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| (verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, evidence, prove, testify |
| (verb) indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively | Synonyms: designate, indicate, point |
| (verb) give expression to | Synonyms: evince, express |
| (verb) give evidence of, as of records | - |
| (verb) indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments | Synonyms: read, record, register |
| (verb) finish third or better in a horse or dog race | - |
| (verb) show in, or as in, a picture | Synonyms: depict, picture, render |
| (verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: usher |
| (verb) make visible or noticeable | - |
| (verb) be or become visible or noticeable | Synonyms: show up |
| (verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, present |
| shower | (verb) take a shower; wash one's body in the shower | - |
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| (verb) provide abundantly with | - |
| (verb) spray or sprinkle with | - |
| (verb) expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns | Synonyms: lavish |
| (verb) rain abundantly | Synonyms: shower down |
| shred | (verb) tear into shreds | Synonyms: rip up, tear up |
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| shriek | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shrill |
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| shrill | (verb) utter a shrill cry | Synonyms: pipe, pipe up, shriek |
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| shrimp | (verb) fish for shrimp | - |
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| shrine | (verb) enclose in a shrine | Synonyms: enshrine |
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| shrink | (verb) become smaller or draw together | Synonyms: contract |
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| (verb) reduce in size; reduce physically | Synonyms: reduce |
| (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrivel, shrivel up, wither |
| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrivel |
| (verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, squinch, wince |
| shrinkwrap | (verb) wrap something tightly with heated plastic that shrinks upon cooling | - |
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| shrive | (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: absolve |
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| shrivel | (verb) wither, as with a loss of moisture | Synonyms: shrink, shrivel up, wither |
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| (verb) decrease in size, range, or extent | Synonyms: shrink |
| shroud | (verb) wrap in a shroud | - |
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| (verb) cover as if with a shroud | Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide |
| (verb) form a cover like a shroud | - |
| shrug | (verb) raise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation | - |
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| shuck | (verb) remove the shucks from | - |
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| (verb) remove from the shell | - |
| shudder | (verb) shake, as from cold | Synonyms: shiver |
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| (verb) tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement | Synonyms: shiver, thrill, throb |
| shuffle | (verb) mix so as to make a random order or arrangement | Synonyms: mix, ruffle |
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| (verb) walk by dragging one's feet | Synonyms: scuffle, shamble |
| (verb) move about, move back and forth | - |
| shun | (verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of | Synonyms: eschew |
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| (verb) expel from a community or group | Synonyms: ban, banish, blackball, cast out, ostracise, ostracize |
| shunt | (verb) transfer to another track, of trains | - |
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| (verb) provide with or divert by means of an electrical shunt | - |
| shush | (verb) silence (someone) by uttering `shush!' | - |
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| shut | (verb) move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut | Synonyms: close |
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| (verb) become closed | Synonyms: close |
| (verb) prevent from entering; shut out | Synonyms: exclude, keep out, shut out |
| shutter | (verb) close with shutters | - |
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| shuttle | (verb) travel back and forth between two points | - |
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| shuttlecock | (verb) send or toss to and fro, like a shuttlecock | - |
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| shy | (verb) throw quickly | - |
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| (verb) start suddenly, as from fright | - |