| wad | (verb) crowd or pack to capacity | Synonyms: chock up, cram, jam, jampack, ram |
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| (verb) compress into a wad | Synonyms: bundle, compact, pack |
| waddle | (verb) walk unsteadily, with short steps | Synonyms: coggle, dodder, paddle, toddle, totter |
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| wade | (verb) walk (through relatively shallow water) | - |
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| waffle | (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waver |
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| waft | (verb) be driven or carried along, as by the air | - |
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| (verb) blow gently | - |
| wag | (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: waggle |
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| wage | (verb) carry on (wars, battles, or campaigns) | Synonyms: engage |
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| wager | (verb) maintain with or as if with a bet | Synonyms: bet |
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| (verb) stake on the outcome of an issue | Synonyms: bet, play |
| waggle | (verb) move from side to side | Synonyms: wag |
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| (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: wamble |
| wail | (verb) cry weakly or softly | Synonyms: mewl, pule, whimper |
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| (verb) emit long loud cries | Synonyms: howl, roar, ululate, yaup, yawl |
| wait | (verb) look forward to the probable occurrence of | Synonyms: await, expect, look |
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| (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: waitress |
| (verb) stay in one place and anticipate or expect something | - |
| (verb) wait before acting | Synonyms: hold back, hold off |
| waitress | (verb) serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant | Synonyms: wait |
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| waive | (verb) lose (something) or lose the right to (something) by some error, offense, or crime | Synonyms: forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard |
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| (verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, foreswear, forgo, relinquish |
| wake | (verb) be awake, be alert, be there | - |
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| (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake up, waken |
| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake up, waken |
| (verb) to alert someone to something | - |
| (verb) arouse or excite feelings and passions | Synonyms: fire up, heat, ignite, inflame, stir up |
| waken | (verb) stop sleeping | Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up |
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| (verb) cause to become awake or conscious | Synonyms: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up |
| walk | (verb) obtain a base on balls | - |
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| (verb) give a base on balls to | - |
| (verb) use one's feet to advance; advance by steps | - |
| (verb) accompany or escort | - |
| (verb) walk at a pace | - |
| (verb) traverse or cover by walking | - |
| (verb) take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure | Synonyms: take the air |
| (verb) make walk | - |
| (verb) live or behave in a specified manner | - |
| (verb) be or act in association with | - |
| wall | (verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence, fence in, palisade, surround |
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| wallop | (verb) defeat soundly and utterly | - |
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| (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: whack, wham, whop |
| wallow | (verb) delight greatly in | - |
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| (verb) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure | - |
| (verb) be ecstatic with joy | Synonyms: rejoice, triumph |
| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: welter |
| (verb) rise up as if in waves | Synonyms: billow |
| wallpaper | (verb) cover with wallpaper | Synonyms: paper |
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| waltz | (verb) dance a waltz | Synonyms: waltz around |
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| wamble | (verb) move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion | Synonyms: waggle |
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| wan | (verb) become pale and sickly | - |
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| wander | (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, stray |
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| (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, tramp, vagabond |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, weave, wind |
| (verb) go via an indirect route or at no set pace | - |
| (verb) be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage | Synonyms: betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold |
| wane | (verb) become smaller | - |
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| (verb) decrease in phase | - |
| (verb) grow smaller | Synonyms: decline, go down |
| wangle | (verb) achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods | Synonyms: finagle, manage |
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| (verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent |
| wank | (verb) get sexual gratification through self-stimulation | Synonyms: fuck off, jack off, jerk off, masturbate, she-bop |
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| want | (verb) wish or demand the presence of | - |
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| (verb) have need of | Synonyms: need, require |
| (verb) hunt or look for; want for a particular reason | - |
| (verb) feel or have a desire for; want strongly | Synonyms: desire |
| (verb) be without, lack; be deficient in | - |
| wanton | (verb) behave extremely cruelly and brutally | - |
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| (verb) engage in amorous play | - |
| (verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: luxuriate |
| (verb) spend wastefully | Synonyms: trifle away, wanton away |
| (verb) waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently | Synonyms: piddle, piddle away, trifle, wanton away |
| (verb) indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life | - |
| war | (verb) make or wage war | - |
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| warble | (verb) sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below | Synonyms: quaver, trill |
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| (verb) sing by changing register; sing by yodeling | Synonyms: descant, yodel |
| ward | (verb) watch over or shield from danger or harm; protect | Synonyms: guard |
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| ware | (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, waste |
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| warehouse | (verb) store in a warehouse | - |
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| warm | (verb) get warm or warmer | Synonyms: warm up |
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| (verb) make warm or warmer | - |
| warn | (verb) notify of danger, potential harm, or risk | - |
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| (verb) advise or counsel in terms of someone's behavior | Synonyms: admonish, discourage, monish |
| (verb) notify, usually in advance | - |
| (verb) ask to go away | - |
| warp | (verb) bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat | Synonyms: buckle, heave |
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| (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, falsify, garble |
| warrant | (verb) provide adequate grounds to justify (a certain course of action) | - |
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| (verb) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of | Synonyms: guarantee |
| wash | (verb) cleanse (one's body) with soap and water | Synonyms: lave |
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| (verb) to cleanse (itself or another animal) by licking | - |
| (verb) remove by the application of water or other liquid and soap or some other cleaning agent | Synonyms: wash away, wash off, wash out |
| (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, moisten |
| (verb) wash or flow against | Synonyms: lap, lave |
| (verb) form by erosion | - |
| (verb) wash by removing particles | Synonyms: hush |
| (verb) cleanse with a cleaning agent, such as soap, and water | Synonyms: launder |
| (verb) separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) | - |
| (verb) clean with some chemical process | Synonyms: rinse |
| (verb) apply a thin coating of paint, metal, etc., to | - |
| (verb) move by or as if by water | - |
| (verb) be capable of being washed | - |
| (verb) admit to testing or proof | - |
| wassail | (verb) propose a toast to | Synonyms: drink, pledge, salute, toast |
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| (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, whoop it up |
| waste | (verb) become physically weaker | Synonyms: rot |
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| (verb) cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly | Synonyms: desolate, devastate, lay waste to, ravage, scourge |
| (verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: emaciate, macerate |
| (verb) lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief | Synonyms: languish, pine away |
| (verb) spend extravagantly | Synonyms: consume, squander, ware |
| (verb) use inefficiently or inappropriately | - |
| (verb) get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing | Synonyms: do in, knock off, liquidate, neutralise, neutralize |
| (verb) run off as waste | Synonyms: run off |
| (verb) spend thoughtlessly; throw away | Synonyms: blow, squander |
| (verb) dispose of | - |
| watch | (verb) find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort | Synonyms: ascertain, check, determine, find out, learn, see |
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| (verb) look attentively | - |
| (verb) be vigilant, be on the lookout or be careful | Synonyms: look out, watch out |
| (verb) observe without intervening | Synonyms: look on |
| (verb) observe or determine by looking | - |
| (verb) see or watch | Synonyms: catch, see, take in, view |
| (verb) follow with the eyes or the mind | Synonyms: follow, keep an eye on, observe, watch over |
| water | (verb) secrete or form water, as tears or saliva | - |
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| (verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: irrigate |
| (verb) fill with tears | - |
| (verb) provide with water | - |
| watercolor | (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolour |
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| watercolour | (verb) paint with watercolors | Synonyms: watercolor |
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| waterproof | (verb) make watertight | - |
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| wattle | (verb) interlace to form wattle | - |
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| (verb) build of or with wattle | - |
| waul | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, wawl |
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| wave | (verb) set waves in | - |
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| (verb) signal with the hands or nod | Synonyms: beckon |
| (verb) move or swing back and forth | Synonyms: brandish, flourish |
| (verb) twist or roll into coils or ringlets | Synonyms: curl |
| (verb) move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion | Synonyms: flap, roll, undulate |
| waver | (verb) give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency | Synonyms: quaver |
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| (verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: weave |
| (verb) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern | Synonyms: fluctuate, vacillate |
| (verb) move back and forth very rapidly | Synonyms: flicker, flitter, flutter, quiver |
| (verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: falter |
| (verb) pause or hold back in uncertainty or unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitate, waffle |
| (verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: falter |
| wawl | (verb) make high-pitched, whiney noises | Synonyms: squall, waul |
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| wax | (verb) go up or advance | Synonyms: climb, mount, rise |
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| (verb) increase in phase | Synonyms: full |
| (verb) cover with wax | - |
| waylay | (verb) wait in hiding to attack | Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, bushwhack, lie in wait, lurk, scupper |
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| weaken | (verb) become weaker | - |
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| (verb) lessen the strength of | - |
| (verb) reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of | Synonyms: de-escalate, step down |
| (verb) lessen in force or effect | Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, soften |
| (verb) destroy property or hinder normal operations | Synonyms: counteract, countermine, sabotage, subvert, undermine |
| wean | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: ablactate |
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| (verb) detach the affections of | - |
| weaponize | (verb) make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon | - |
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| wear | (verb) be dressed in | Synonyms: have on |
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| (verb) put clothing on one's body | Synonyms: assume, don, get into, put on |
| (verb) have or show an appearance of | - |
| (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary |
| (verb) have on one's person | Synonyms: bear |
| (verb) deteriorate through use or stress | Synonyms: wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin |
| (verb) go to pieces | Synonyms: break, bust, fall apart, wear out |
| (verb) last and be usable | Synonyms: endure, hold out |
| (verb) have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality | - |
| weary | (verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress | Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon |
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| (verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody | Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, tire |
| weather | (verb) change under the action or influence of the weather | - |
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| (verb) cause to slope | - |
| (verb) sail to the windward of | - |
| (verb) face and withstand with courage | Synonyms: brave, brave out, endure |
| weatherproof | (verb) make resistant to bad weather | - |
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| weatherstrip | (verb) provide with weatherstripping | - |
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| weave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: interweave |
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| (verb) create a piece of cloth by interlacing strands of fabric, such as wool or cotton | Synonyms: tissue |
| (verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course | Synonyms: meander, thread, wander, wind |
| (verb) sway from side to side | Synonyms: waver |
| web | (verb) construct or form a web, as if by weaving | Synonyms: net |
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| wed | (verb) take in marriage; married | Synonyms: conjoin, espouse, get hitched with, get married, hook up with, marry |
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| (verb) perform a marriage ceremony | Synonyms: marry, splice, tie |
| wedel | (verb) ski, alternating directions | - |
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| wedge | (verb) squeeze like a wedge into a tight space | Synonyms: force, squeeze |
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| (verb) put, fix, force, or implant | Synonyms: deposit, lodge, stick |
| wee | (verb) eliminate urine | Synonyms: make, make water, micturate, pass water, pee-pee, pee, piddle, piss, puddle, relieve oneself, spend a penny, take a leak, urinate, wee-wee |
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| weed | (verb) clear of weeds | - |
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| weekend | (verb) spend the weekend | - |
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| weep | (verb) shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain | Synonyms: cry |
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| weigh | (verb) show consideration for; take into account | Synonyms: consider, count |
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| (verb) determine the weight of | Synonyms: librate |
| (verb) have a certain weight | - |
| (verb) have weight; have import, carry weight | Synonyms: count, matter |
| (verb) to be oppressive or burdensome | Synonyms: press |
| weight | (verb) present with a bias | Synonyms: angle, slant |
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| (verb) weight down with a load | Synonyms: burden, burthen, weight down |
| weightlift | (verb) lift weights | Synonyms: press, weight-lift |
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| welch | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welsh |
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| welcome | (verb) bid welcome to; greet upon arrival | Synonyms: receive |
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| (verb) receive someone, as into one's house | - |
| (verb) accept gladly | - |
| weld | (verb) unite closely or intimately | - |
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| (verb) join together by heating | - |
| well | (verb) come up, as of a liquid | Synonyms: swell |
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| welsh | (verb) cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt | Synonyms: welch |
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| welt | (verb) put a welt on | - |
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| (verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip |
| welter | (verb) be immersed in | - |
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| (verb) roll around | Synonyms: wallow |
| (verb) toss, roll, or rise and fall in an uncontrolled way | - |
| wench | (verb) frequent prostitutes | - |
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| wend | (verb) direct one's course or way | - |
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| westernise | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernize |
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| westernize | (verb) make western in character | Synonyms: occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise |
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| wet | (verb) make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating | - |
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| (verb) cause to become wet | - |
| whack | (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, wham, whop |
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| whale | (verb) hunt for whales | - |
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| wham | (verb) strike hard | Synonyms: wallop, whack, whop |
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| whang | (verb) attack forcefully | - |
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| (verb) propel or hit with force | - |
| (verb) beat with force | - |
| whap | (verb) hit hard | Synonyms: bash, bonk, bop, sock, whop |
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| wharf | (verb) moor at a wharf | - |
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| (verb) discharge at a wharf | - |
| (verb) come into or dock at a wharf | Synonyms: berth, moor |
| (verb) store on a wharf | - |
| (verb) provide with a wharf | - |
| wheedle | (verb) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering | Synonyms: blarney, cajole, coax, inveigle, palaver, sweet-talk |
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| wheel | (verb) change directions as if revolving on a pivot | Synonyms: wheel around |
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| (verb) move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle | Synonyms: roll |
| (verb) wheel somebody or something | Synonyms: wheel around |
| (verb) ride a bicycle | Synonyms: bicycle, bike, cycle, pedal |
| wheelbarrow | (verb) transport in a wheelbarrow | - |
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| wheeze | (verb) breathe with difficulty | - |
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| whelk | (verb) gather whelk | - |
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| whelm | (verb) overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli | Synonyms: overcome, overpower, overtake, overwhelm, sweep over |
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| (verb) to neither fail to meet nor exceed expectation | - |
| whelp | (verb) give birth to (a puppy) | Synonyms: pup |
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| whet | (verb) sharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone | - |
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| (verb) make keen or more acute | Synonyms: quicken |
| whicker | (verb) make a characteristic sound, of a horse | Synonyms: neigh, nicker, whinny |
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