amphimixis | (noun) union of sperm and egg in sexual reproduction | - |
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(noun) reproduction involving the union or fusion of a male and a female gamete | Synonyms: sexual reproduction |
animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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animist | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animistic |
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(noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
animistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to the doctrine of animism | Synonyms: animist |
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animize | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animise |
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antimicrobial | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobic |
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(noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobic, disinfectant, germicide |
antimicrobic | (adjective) capable of destroying or inhibiting the growth of disease-causing microorganisms | Synonyms: antimicrobial |
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(noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, disinfectant, germicide |
assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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assimilable | (adjective) able to be absorbed and incorporated into body tissues | - |
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assimilate | (verb) become similar to one's environment | - |
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(verb) make similar | - |
(verb) become similar in sound | - |
(verb) take up mentally | Synonyms: absorb, ingest, take in |
(verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: imbibe |
assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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assimilation | (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance | - |
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(noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: acculturation |
(noun) a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound | - |
(noun) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family | - |
assimilative | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilatory |
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(adjective) capable of mentally absorbing | - |
assimilator | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: learner, scholar, student |
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assimilatory | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilating, assimilative |
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azoimide | (noun) a colorless explosive liquid that is volatile and poisonous and foul-smelling | Synonyms: HN, hydrazoic acid, hydrogen azide |
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bimillenary | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillennium |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillennium |
bimillenial | (adjective) of or relating to a bimillennium | - |
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bimillennium | (noun) a span of 2000 years | Synonyms: bimillenary |
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(noun) the 2000th anniversary (or the celebration of it) | Synonyms: bimillenary |
bulimia | (noun) pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions) | - |
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(noun) a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self-condemnation | Synonyms: binge-eating syndrome |
bulimic | (adjective) suffering from bulimia | - |
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(noun) a person suffering from bulimia | - |
caimitillo | (noun) tropical American timber tree with dark hard heavy wood and small plumlike purple fruit | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum oliviforme, damson plum, satin leaf, satinleaf |
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caimito | (noun) evergreen tree of West Indies and Central America having edible purple fruit star-shaped in cross section and dark green leaves with golden silky undersides | Synonyms: Chrysophyllum cainito, star apple |
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calcimine | (noun) a water-base paint containing zinc oxide and glue and coloring; used as a wash for walls and ceilings | - |
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(verb) cover with calcimine | - |
cetrimide | (noun) a cationic detergent that is a powerful disinfectant | - |
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criminal | (adjective) guilty of crime or serious offense | - |
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(adjective) involving or being or having the nature of a crime | Synonyms: felonious |
(adjective) bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure | Synonyms: condemnable, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious |
(noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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criminalise | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
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criminality | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminalness |
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criminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalisation |
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criminalize | (verb) declare illegal; outlaw | Synonyms: criminalise, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw |
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(verb) treat as a criminal | - |
criminally | (adverb) in violation of the law; in a criminal manner | - |
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(adverb) in a shameful manner | Synonyms: reprehensively |
criminalness | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminalism, criminality |
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criminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, impeach, incriminate |
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(verb) rebuke formally | Synonyms: censure, reprimand |
criminative | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminatory, incriminating, incriminatory |
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criminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, incriminating, incriminatory |
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criminological | (adjective) of or relating to or involved in criminology | - |
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criminologist | (noun) a specialist in criminology | - |
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criminology | (noun) the scientific study of crime and criminal behavior and law enforcement | - |
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decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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decriminalise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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decriminalization | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalisation |
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decriminalize | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize |
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delimit | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify |
(verb) be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry | Synonyms: subtend |
delimitate | (verb) set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something | Synonyms: delimit, demarcate |
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(verb) determine the essential quality of | Synonyms: define, delimit, delineate, specify |
delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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delimited | (adjective) having the limits or boundaries established | Synonyms: bounded |
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diminish | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, fall, lessen |
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(verb) lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of | Synonyms: belittle |
diminished | (adjective) (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use | Synonyms: atrophied, wasted |
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(adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: lessened, vitiated, weakened |
(adjective) made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth) | Synonyms: belittled, small |
(adjective) (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval | - |
diminishing | (adjective) becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so | - |
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diminuendo | (adjective) (music) gradually decreasing in volume | Synonyms: decrescendo |
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(noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: decrescendo |
diminution | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: decrease, reduction, step-down |
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(noun) the statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original) | - |
(noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: decline |
diminutive | (adjective) very small | Synonyms: bantam, flyspeck, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny |
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(noun) a word that is formed with a suffix (such as -let or -kin) to indicate smallness | - |
diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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dimity | (noun) a strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedcovers and curtains | - |
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discriminable | (adjective) capable of being discriminated | - |
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discriminate | (adjective) marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions | - |
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(verb) recognize or perceive the difference | Synonyms: know apart |
(verb) distinguish | - |
(verb) treat differently on the basis of sex or race | Synonyms: separate, single out |
discriminating | (adjective) showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste | - |
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(adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
discrimination | (noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice | Synonyms: favoritism, favouritism |
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(noun) the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished | Synonyms: secernment |
discriminative | (adjective) expressing careful judgment | Synonyms: judicial |
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(adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminatory |
discriminator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: differentiator |
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discriminatory | (adjective) being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand | Synonyms: prejudiced |
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(adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: preferential |
(adjective) capable of making fine distinctions | Synonyms: discriminative |
(adjective) containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice | Synonyms: invidious |
dissimilar | (adjective) not similar | - |
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(adjective) not alike or similar | Synonyms: unalike |
dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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dissimilate | (verb) become dissimilar or less similar | - |
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(verb) make dissimilar; cause to become less similar | - |
(verb) become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities | - |
dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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(noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
dissimilitude | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: unlikeness |
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eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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(verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
(verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
(verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
(verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
(verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
(verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
elimination | (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: liquidation |
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(noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: riddance |
(noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | - |
(noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | Synonyms: reasoning by elimination |
(noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding |
eliminator | (noun) an agent that eliminates something | - |
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equanimity | (noun) steadiness of mind under stress | Synonyms: calm, calmness, composure |
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ethosuximide | (noun) an anticonvulsant drug (trade names Emeside and Zarontin) used to treat petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: Emeside, Zarontin |
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exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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(noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
(verb) send something via a facsimile machine | Synonyms: fax, telefax |
glutethimide | (noun) sedative (trade name Doriden) used to treat some sleep disorders | Synonyms: Doriden |
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griminess | (noun) the state of being grimy | Synonyms: grubbiness |
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illimitable | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: limitless, measureless, unmeasured |
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imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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imide | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO- | - |
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iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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imipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Imavate, impramine hydrochloride, Tofranil |
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imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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(verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
(verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
imitation | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, simulated |
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(noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
(noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
(noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
(noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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(adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
(adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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(noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
incriminate | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: accuse, criminate, impeach |
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(verb) suggest that someone is guilty | Synonyms: imply, inculpate |
incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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incriminatingly | (adverb) in an incriminating manner | - |
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incrimination | (noun) an accusation that you are responsible for some lapse or misdeed | Synonyms: blame, inculpation |
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incriminatory | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminating |
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indiscriminate | (adjective) not marked by fine distinctions | - |
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(adjective) failing to make or recognize distinctions | - |
indiscriminately | (adverb) in a random manner | Synonyms: arbitrarily, at random, every which way, haphazardly, randomly, willy-nilly |
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(adverb) in an indiscriminate manner | Synonyms: promiscuously |
indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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inimical | (adjective) not friendly | Synonyms: unfriendly |
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inimitable | (adjective) defying imitation; matchless | - |
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inimitably | (adverb) in an unreproducible manner | Synonyms: unreproducibly |
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intimidate | (verb) make timid or fearful | - |
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(verb) to compel or deter by or as if by threats | - |