abnegate | (verb) deny or renounce | - |
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(verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
(verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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agate | (noun) an impure form of quartz consisting of banded chalcedony; used as a gemstone and for making mortars and pestles | - |
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agateware | (noun) pottery that is veined and mottled to resemble agate | - |
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aggregate | (adjective) composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets | - |
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(adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregated, aggregative, mass |
(noun) the whole amount | Synonyms: sum, total, totality |
(noun) a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together | Synonyms: congeries, conglomeration |
(noun) material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster | - |
(verb) gather in a mass, sum, or whole | Synonyms: combine |
(verb) amount in the aggregate to | - |
aggregated | (adjective) formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole | Synonyms: aggregate, aggregative, mass |
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arrogate | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp |
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(verb) make undue claims to having | Synonyms: assign |
(verb) demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to | Synonyms: claim, lay claim |
astrogate | (verb) navigate in space | - |
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(verb) guide in interplanetary travel | - |
bagatelle | (noun) a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over | Synonyms: bar billiards |
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(noun) something of little value or significance | Synonyms: fluff, frippery, frivolity |
(noun) a light piece of music for piano | - |
billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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(verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
centrifugate | (verb) rotate at very high speed in order to separate the liquids from the solids | Synonyms: centrifuge |
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circumnavigate | (verb) travel around, either by plane or ship | Synonyms: compass |
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colligate | (verb) consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle | Synonyms: subsume |
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(verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: associate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
congregate | (verb) come together, usually for a purpose | - |
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conjugate | (adjective) (of a pinnate leaflet) having only one pair of leaflets | - |
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(adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugated, coupled |
(adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugated |
(adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugated |
(noun) a mixture of two partially miscible liquids A and B produces two conjugate solutions: one of A in B and another of B in A | Synonyms: conjugate solution |
(verb) unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds | - |
(verb) undergo conjugation | - |
(verb) add inflections showing person, number, gender, tense, aspect, etc. | - |
conjugated | (adjective) joined together especially in a pair or pairs | Synonyms: conjugate, coupled |
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(adjective) of an organic compound; containing two or more double bonds each separated from the other by a single bond | Synonyms: conjugate |
(adjective) formed by the union of two compounds | Synonyms: conjugate |
corrugate | (verb) fold into ridges | - |
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corrugated | (adjective) shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges | - |
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delegate | (noun) a person appointed or elected to represent others | - |
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(verb) give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) | Synonyms: assign, depute, designate |
(verb) transfer power to someone | Synonyms: depute |
derogate | (verb) cause to seem less serious; play down | Synonyms: belittle, denigrate, minimize |
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desegregate | (verb) open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups | Synonyms: integrate, mix |
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divagate | (verb) lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking | Synonyms: digress, stray, wander |
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elongate | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongated |
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(adjective) (of a leaf shape) long and narrow | Synonyms: linear |
(verb) make long or longer by pulling and stretching | Synonyms: stretch |
elongated | (adjective) having notably more length than width; being long and slender | Synonyms: elongate |
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(adjective) drawn out or made longer spatially | Synonyms: extended, lengthened, prolonged |
expurgate | (verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, shorten |
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expurgated | (adjective) having material deleted | - |
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floodgate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: head gate, penstock, sluice valve, sluicegate, water gate |
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(noun) something that restrains a flood or outpouring | - |
frigate | (noun) a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser | - |
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(noun) a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries | - |
fumigate | (verb) treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests | Synonyms: fume |
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fustigate | (verb) strike with a cudgel | Synonyms: cudgel |
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gate | (noun) a movable barrier in a fence or wall | - |
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(noun) a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs | Synonyms: logic gate |
(noun) passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark | - |
(noun) total admission receipts at a sports event | - |
(verb) restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment | - |
(verb) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate | - |
(verb) supply with a gate | - |
gateau | (noun) any of various rich and elaborate cakes | - |
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gatecrasher | (noun) someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying | Synonyms: crasher, unwelcome guest |
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gatefold | (noun) an oversize page that is folded in to a book or magazine | Synonyms: foldout |
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gatehouse | (noun) a house built at a gateway; usually the gatekeeper's residence | - |
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gatekeeper | (noun) someone who guards an entrance | Synonyms: door guard, doorkeeper, doorman, hall porter, ostiary, porter |
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(noun) someone who controls access to something | - |
gatepost | (noun) either of two posts that bound a gate | - |
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gateway | (noun) an entrance that can be closed by a gate | - |
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instigate | (verb) provoke or stir up | Synonyms: incite, set off, stir up |
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(verb) serve as the inciting cause of | Synonyms: inspire, prompt |
interrogate | (verb) pose a series of questions to | Synonyms: question |
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(verb) transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication | - |
investigate | (verb) investigate scientifically | Synonyms: look into |
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(verb) conduct an inquiry or investigation of | Synonyms: enquire, inquire |
irrigate | (verb) supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting | - |
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(verb) supply with water, as with channels or ditches or streams | Synonyms: water |
legate | (noun) a member of a legation | Synonyms: official emissary |
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legatee | (noun) someone to whom a legacy is bequeathed | - |
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legateship | (noun) the post or office of legate | Synonyms: legation |
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lichgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lychgate |
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liftgate | (noun) a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open | Synonyms: hatch, hatchback, hatchback door |
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ligate | (verb) bind with a bandage or ligature | - |
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(verb) bind chemically | - |
(verb) join letters in a ligature when writing | - |
litigate | (verb) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | Synonyms: action, process, sue |
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(verb) engage in legal proceedings | - |
lychgate | (noun) a roofed gate to a churchyard, formerly used as a temporary shelter for the bier during funerals | Synonyms: lichgate |
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margate | (noun) a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | Synonyms: Haemulon album |
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mitigate | (verb) to temper | - |
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(verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, palliate |
mitigated | (adjective) made less severe or intense | - |
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navigate | (verb) act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance | Synonyms: pilot |
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(verb) travel on water propelled by wind or by other means | Synonyms: sail, voyage |
(verb) direct carefully and safely | - |
negate | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: neutralise, neutralize, nullify |
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(verb) prove negative; show to be false | Synonyms: contradict |
(verb) deny the truth of | Synonyms: contradict, contravene |
(verb) be in contradiction with | Synonyms: belie, contradict |
nonsegregated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: desegrated, unsegregated |
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objurgate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, excoriate, reprobate |
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(verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chasten, chastise, correct |
obligate | (adjective) restricted to a particular condition of life | - |
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(verb) bind by an obligation; cause to be indebted | Synonyms: bind, hold, oblige |
(verb) commit in order to fulfill an obligation | - |
(verb) force somebody to do something | Synonyms: compel, oblige |
obligated | (adjective) caused by law or conscience to follow a certain course | - |
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profligate | (adjective) unrestrained by convention or morality | Synonyms: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, fast, libertine, riotous |
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(adjective) recklessly wasteful | Synonyms: extravagant, prodigal, spendthrift |
(noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society | Synonyms: blood, rake, rakehell, rip, roue |
(noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer | Synonyms: prodigal, squanderer |
profligately | (adverb) in a dissolute way | Synonyms: dissolutely |
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promulgate | (verb) state or announce | Synonyms: exclaim, proclaim |
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(verb) put a law into effect by formal declaration | - |
promulgated | (adjective) formally made public | Synonyms: published |
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propagate | (verb) multiply sexually or asexually | - |
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(verb) cause to propagate, as by grafting or layering | - |
(verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, spread |
(verb) transmit | - |
(verb) transmit or cause to broaden or spread | - |
(verb) become distributed or widespread | Synonyms: spread |
(verb) travel through the air | - |
(verb) transmit from one generation to the next | - |
relegate | (verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: classify |
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(verb) assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | Synonyms: break, bump, demote, kick downstairs |
(verb) expel, as if by official decree | Synonyms: banish, bar |
(verb) refer to another person for decision or judgment | Synonyms: pass on, submit |
segregate | (noun) someone who is or has been segregated | - |
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(verb) separate or isolate (one thing) from another and place in a group apart from others | - |
(verb) divide from the main body or mass and collect | - |
(verb) separate by race or religion; practice a policy of racial segregation | - |
segregated | (adjective) separated or isolated from others or a main group | Synonyms: unintegrated |
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sluicegate | (noun) regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice | Synonyms: floodgate, head gate, penstock, sluice valve, water gate |
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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 |
subjugated | (adjective) reduced to submission | - |
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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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surrogate | (adjective) providing or receiving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties | Synonyms: foster |
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(noun) a person appointed to represent or act on behalf of others | Synonyms: deputy |
(noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, replacement |
tailgate | (noun) a gate at the rear of a vehicle; can be lowered for loading | Synonyms: tailboard |
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(verb) follow at a dangerously close distance | - |
tailgater | (noun) a driver who follows too closely behind another motor vehicle | - |
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tollgate | (noun) a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid | Synonyms: tollbar |
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unexpurgated | (adjective) not having material deleted | - |
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unmitigated | (adjective) not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; sometimes used as an intensifier | - |
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unobligated | (adjective) not obligated | - |
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unsegregated | (adjective) rid of segregation; having had segregation ended | Synonyms: desegrated, nonsegregated |
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variegate | (verb) make something more diverse and varied | Synonyms: motley, vary |
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(verb) change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors | - |
variegated | (adjective) having a variety of colors | Synonyms: varicolored, varicoloured |
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