| trace | (verb) follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something | Synonyms: follow |
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| (verb) read with difficulty | Synonyms: decipher |
| (verb) make a mark or lines on a surface | Synonyms: delineate, describe, draw, line |
| (verb) copy by following the lines of the original drawing on a transparent sheet placed upon it; make a tracing of | - |
| (verb) pursue or chase relentlessly | Synonyms: hound, hunt |
| (verb) to go back over again | Synonyms: retrace |
| (verb) make one's course or travel along a path; travel or pass over, around, or along | - |
| (verb) discover traces of | - |
| track | (verb) make tracks upon | - |
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| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, trail |
| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, traverse |
| (verb) carry on the feet and deposit | - |
| (verb) observe or plot the moving path of something | - |
| trade | (verb) turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase | Synonyms: trade in |
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| (verb) engage in the trade of | Synonyms: merchandise |
| (verb) exchange or give (something) in exchange for | Synonyms: swap, switch, swop |
| (verb) do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood | Synonyms: deal, sell |
| (verb) be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions | - |
| trademark | (verb) register the trademark of | - |
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| (verb) mark with a brand or trademark | Synonyms: brand, brandmark |
| traduce | (verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, malign |
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| traffic | (verb) deal illegally | - |
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| (verb) trade or deal a commodity | - |
| trail | (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: train |
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| (verb) hang down so as to drag along the ground | - |
| (verb) go after with the intent to catch | Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track |
| (verb) move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly | Synonyms: shack |
| (verb) to lag or linger behind | Synonyms: drag, drop back, drop behind, get behind, hang back |
| train | (verb) exercise in order to prepare for an event or competition | - |
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| (verb) undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession | Synonyms: prepare |
| (verb) create by training and teaching | Synonyms: develop, educate, prepare |
| (verb) teach and supervise (someone); act as a trainer or coach (to), as in sports | Synonyms: coach |
| (verb) point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards | Synonyms: aim, direct, take, take aim |
| (verb) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground | Synonyms: trail |
| (verb) travel by rail or train | Synonyms: rail |
| (verb) educate for a future role or function | Synonyms: groom, prepare |
| (verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school |
| (verb) develop (a child's or animal's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control | Synonyms: check, condition, discipline |
| (verb) cause to grow in a certain way by tying and pruning it | - |
| traipse | (verb) walk or tramp about | Synonyms: shlep |
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| tram | (verb) travel by tram | - |
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| trammel | (verb) place limits on (extent or amount or access) | Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle |
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| (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trap |
| tramp | (verb) travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition | - |
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| (verb) walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud | Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, trudge |
| (verb) move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment | Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander |
| (verb) cross on foot | - |
| trample | (verb) injure by trampling or as if by trampling | - |
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| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: tread |
| (verb) walk on and flatten | Synonyms: tramp down, tread down |
| trance | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate |
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| tranquilize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquillise, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| tranquillise | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillize |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillize |
| tranquillize | (verb) cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | Synonyms: calm, sedate, tranquilize, tranquillise |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise |
| transact | (verb) conduct business | - |
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| transaminate | (verb) undergo transfer from one compound to another | - |
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| (verb) change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another | - |
| transcend | (verb) be greater in scope or size than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, surpass |
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| (verb) be superior or better than some standard | Synonyms: exceed, go past, overstep, pass, top |
| transcribe | (verb) convert the genetic information in (a strand of DNA) into a strand of RNA, especially messenger RNA | - |
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| (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transliterate |
| (verb) write out from speech, notes, etc. | - |
| (verb) make a phonetic transcription of | - |
| (verb) rewrite or arrange a piece of music for an instrument or medium other than that originally intended | - |
| transduce | (verb) cause transduction (of energy forms) | - |
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| transect | (verb) cut across or divide transversely | - |
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| transfer | (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transplant, transpose |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transmit, transport |
| (verb) move around | Synonyms: shift |
| (verb) shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes | Synonyms: remove |
| (verb) change from one vehicle or transportation line to another | Synonyms: change |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transplant |
| (verb) cause to change ownership | - |
| (verb) move from one place to another | - |
| (verb) transfer somebody to a different position or location of work | Synonyms: reassign |
| transfigure | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmogrify |
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| (verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: glorify, spiritualize |
| transfix | (verb) pierce with a sharp stake or point | Synonyms: empale, impale, spike |
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| (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: fascinate, grip, spellbind |
| transform | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transmute, transubstantiate |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: translate |
| (verb) subject to a mathematical transformation | - |
| (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transmute |
| (verb) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage) | - |
| (verb) change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species | - |
| (verb) convert (one form of energy) to another | - |
| transfuse | (verb) treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin | Synonyms: cup |
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| (verb) give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to | - |
| (verb) pour out of one vessel into another | - |
| (verb) impart gradually | Synonyms: instill |
| transgress | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, trespass |
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| (verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises | Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, violate |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, trespass |
| (verb) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline | - |
| transistorise | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorize |
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| transistorize | (verb) equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors | Synonyms: transistorise |
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| transit | (verb) make a passage or journey from one place to another | Synonyms: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through |
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| (verb) cause or enable to pass through | - |
| (verb) revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction | - |
| (verb) pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place) | - |
| transition | (verb) make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another) | - |
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| (verb) cause to convert or undergo a transition | - |
| transitivise | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivize |
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| transitivize | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivise |
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| translate | (verb) change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation | - |
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| (verb) change from one form or medium into another | Synonyms: transform |
| (verb) make sense of a language | Synonyms: interpret, read, understand |
| (verb) restate (words) from one language into another language | Synonyms: interpret, render |
| (verb) determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA | - |
| (verb) express, as in simple and less technical language | - |
| (verb) bring to a certain spiritual state | - |
| (verb) subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body | - |
| (verb) be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way | - |
| (verb) be equivalent in effect | - |
| transliterate | (verb) rewrite in a different script | Synonyms: transcribe |
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| translocate | (verb) move from one place to another, especially of wild animals | - |
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| (verb) transfer (a chromosomal segment) to a new position | - |
| transmigrate | (verb) move from one country or region to another and settle there | Synonyms: migrate |
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| (verb) be born anew in another body after death | Synonyms: reincarnate |
| transmit | (verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, send |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transport |
| (verb) transmit or serve as the medium for transmission | Synonyms: carry, channel, conduct, convey, impart |
| (verb) transfer to another | Synonyms: communicate, convey |
| transmogrify | (verb) change completely the nature or appearance of | Synonyms: metamorphose, transfigure |
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| transmute | (verb) change in outward structure or looks | Synonyms: metamorphose, transform |
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| (verb) alter the nature of (elements) | - |
| (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transubstantiate |
| transpirate | (verb) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas | Synonyms: transpire |
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| transpire | (verb) give off (water) through the skin | - |
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| (verb) come to light; become known | - |
| (verb) exude water vapor | - |
| (verb) come about, happen, or occur | - |
| (verb) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas | Synonyms: transpirate |
| transplant | (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transpose |
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| (verb) place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient | Synonyms: graft |
| (verb) lift and reset in another soil or situation | Synonyms: transfer |
| (verb) be transplantable | - |
| transport | (verb) move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body | Synonyms: carry |
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| (verb) send from one person or place to another | Synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit |
| (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish |
| (verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances | - |
| (verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: send, ship |
| transpose | (verb) change the order or arrangement of | Synonyms: commute, permute |
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| (verb) change key | - |
| (verb) cause to change places | Synonyms: counterchange, interchange |
| (verb) exchange positions without a change in value | Synonyms: commute |
| (verb) transfer from one place or period to another | Synonyms: transfer, transplant |
| (verb) put (a piece of music) into another key | - |
| (verb) transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality | - |
| transship | (verb) transfer for further transportation from one ship or conveyance to another | - |
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| transubstantiate | (verb) change or alter in form, appearance, or nature | Synonyms: transform, transmute |
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| (verb) change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ | - |
| transude | (verb) release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities | Synonyms: exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out |
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| trap | (verb) catch in or as if in a trap | Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel |
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| (verb) hold or catch as if in a trap | - |
| (verb) to hold fast or prevent from moving | Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, pin |
| (verb) to sell marijuana on a street corner | - |
| (verb) place in a confining or embarrassing position | Synonyms: pin down |
| trash | (verb) express a totally negative opinion of | Synonyms: pan, tear apart |
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| (verb) dispose of (something useless or old) | Synonyms: junk, scrap |
| traumatise | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: shock, traumatize |
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| traumatize | (verb) inflict a trauma upon | Synonyms: shock, traumatise |
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| travail | (verb) work hard | Synonyms: dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil |
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| travel | (verb) change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically | Synonyms: go, locomote, move |
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| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, trip |
| (verb) travel upon or across | Synonyms: journey |
| (verb) undergo transportation as in a vehicle | - |
| (verb) undertake a journey or trip | Synonyms: journey |
| (verb) travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge | Synonyms: move around |
| traverse | (verb) deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit | Synonyms: deny |
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| (verb) travel across or pass over | Synonyms: cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track |
| (verb) to cover or extend over an area or time period | Synonyms: cross, span, sweep |
| travesty | (verb) make a travesty of | - |
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| trawl | (verb) fish with trawlers | - |
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| tread | (verb) crush as if by treading on | - |
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| (verb) brace (an archer's bow) by pressing the foot against the center | - |
| (verb) mate with (used of male birds) | - |
| (verb) tread or stomp heavily or roughly | Synonyms: trample |
| (verb) put down or press the foot, place the foot | Synonyms: step |
| (verb) apply (the tread) to a tire | - |
| treadle | (verb) operate (machinery) by a treadle | - |
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| (verb) tread over | - |
| treasure | (verb) be fond of; be attached to | Synonyms: care for, cherish, hold dear |
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| (verb) hold dear | Synonyms: appreciate, prize, value |
| treat | (verb) provide treatment for | Synonyms: care for |
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| (verb) subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | Synonyms: process |
| (verb) regard or consider in a specific way | - |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: address, cover, deal, handle, plow |
| (verb) engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement | - |
| (verb) provide with choice or abundant food or drink | Synonyms: regale |
| (verb) provide with a gift or entertainment | - |
| (verb) interact in a certain way | Synonyms: do by, handle |
| treble | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: triple |
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| (verb) sing treble | - |
| tree | (verb) stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree | Synonyms: shoetree |
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| (verb) chase an animal up a tree | - |
| (verb) plant with trees | - |
| (verb) force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape | Synonyms: corner |
| trek | (verb) make a long and difficult journey | - |
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| (verb) journey on foot, especially in the mountains | - |
| trellis | (verb) train on a trellis, as of a vine | - |
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| tremble | (verb) move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways | - |
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| tremor | (verb) shake with seismic vibrations | Synonyms: quake |
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| trench | (verb) cut or carve deeply into | - |
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| (verb) dig a trench or trenches | - |
| (verb) cut a trench in, as for drainage | Synonyms: ditch |
| (verb) fortify by surrounding with trenches | - |
| (verb) set, plant, or bury in a trench | - |
| (verb) impinge or infringe upon | Synonyms: encroach, entrench, impinge |
| trend | (verb) turn sharply; change direction abruptly | Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, veer |
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| (verb) to be temporarily popular | - |
| trepan | (verb) cut a hole with a trepan, as in surgery | - |
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| trephine | (verb) operate on with a trephine | - |
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| trespass | (verb) pass beyond (limits or boundaries) | Synonyms: overstep, transgress |
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| (verb) break the law | - |
| (verb) enter unlawfully on someone's property | Synonyms: intrude |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: sin, transgress |
| (verb) make excessive use of | Synonyms: take advantage |
| triangulate | (verb) survey by triangulation | - |
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| (verb) measure by using trigonometry | - |
| (verb) divide into triangles or give a triangular form to | - |
| tribulate | (verb) oppress or trouble greatly | - |
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| trice | (verb) hoist up or in and lash or secure with a small rope | Synonyms: trice up |
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| (verb) raise with a line | Synonyms: trice up |
| trick | (verb) deceive somebody | Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on |
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| trickle | (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: dribble, filter |
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| trifle | (verb) consider not very seriously | Synonyms: dally, play |
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| (verb) act frivolously | Synonyms: frivol |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, wanton, wanton away |
| trifurcate | (verb) divide into three | - |
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| trigger | (verb) release or pull the trigger on | - |
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| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger off, trip |
| trill | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, warble |
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| (verb) pronounce with a trill, of the phoneme `r' | - |
| trim | (verb) cut down on; make a reduction in | Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down |
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| (verb) adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used | - |
| (verb) cut closely | Synonyms: shave |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip |
| (verb) remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size | Synonyms: pare |
| (verb) decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods | Synonyms: dress, garnish |
| (verb) decorate, as with ornaments | - |
| (verb) be in equilibrium during a flight | - |
| (verb) balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces | - |
| trip | (verb) get high, stoned, or drugged | Synonyms: get off, trip out, turn on |
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| (verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off |
| (verb) miss a step and fall or nearly fall | Synonyms: stumble |
| (verb) cause to stumble | Synonyms: trip up |
| (verb) make a trip for pleasure | Synonyms: jaunt, travel |
| triple | (verb) increase threefold | Synonyms: treble |
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| (verb) hit a three-base hit | - |
| triplicate | (verb) reproduce threefold | - |
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| trisect | (verb) cut in three | - |
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| triumph | (verb) dwell on with satisfaction | Synonyms: crow, gloat |
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| (verb) to express great joy | Synonyms: exuberate, exult, jubilate, rejoice |
| (verb) prove superior | Synonyms: prevail |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, wallow |
| trivialise | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialize |
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| trivialize | (verb) make trivial or insignificant | Synonyms: trivialise |
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| troat | (verb) emit a cry intended to attract other animals; used especially of animals at rutting time | - |
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| troll | (verb) sing loudly and without inhibition | - |
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| (verb) praise or celebrate in song | - |
| (verb) speak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice | - |
| (verb) angle with a hook and line drawn through the water | - |
| (verb) sing the parts of (a round) in succession | - |
| (verb) cause to move round and round | - |
| (verb) circulate, move around | - |
| troop | (verb) move or march as if in a crowd | - |
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| (verb) march in a procession in a public place | Synonyms: parade, promenade |
| trot | (verb) run at a moderately swift pace | Synonyms: clip, jog |
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| (verb) ride at a trot | - |
| (verb) cause to trot | - |
| trouble | (verb) cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed | Synonyms: ail, pain |
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| (verb) disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed | Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, perturb, unhinge |
| (verb) move deeply | Synonyms: disturb, upset |
| (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out |
| (verb) take the trouble to do something; concern oneself | Synonyms: bother, inconvenience oneself, trouble oneself |
| troubleshoot | (verb) solve problems | Synonyms: trouble-shoot |
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| trounce | (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, scold, take to task |
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| (verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
| trowel | (verb) use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work | - |
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| truck | (verb) convey (goods etc.) by truck | - |
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