| alchemise | (verb) alter (elements) by alchemy | Synonyms: alchemize |
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| anathemise | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: accurse, anathematise, anathematize, anathemize, comminate, execrate |
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| (verb) wish harm upon; invoke evil upon | Synonyms: anathemize, bedamn, beshrew, curse, damn, imprecate, maledict |
| anatomise | (verb) dissect in order to analyze | Synonyms: anatomize |
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| animise | (verb) give lifelike qualities to | Synonyms: animate, animize |
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| atomise | (verb) break up into small particles | Synonyms: atomize |
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| (verb) strike at with firepower or bombs | Synonyms: atomize, nuke, zap |
| (verb) spray very finely | Synonyms: atomize |
| atomiser | (noun) a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine mist | Synonyms: atomizer, nebuliser, nebulizer, spray, sprayer |
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| autotomise | (verb) cause a body part to undergo autotomy | Synonyms: autotomize |
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| camise | (noun) a loose shirt or tunic; originally worn in the Middle Ages | - |
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| chemise | (noun) a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist | Synonyms: sack, shift |
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| (noun) a woman's sleeveless undergarment | Synonyms: shift, shimmy, slip, teddy |
| commiserate | (verb) to feel or express sympathy or compassion | Synonyms: sympathise, sympathize |
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| commiseration | (noun) an expression of sympathy with another's grief | Synonyms: condolence |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others | Synonyms: pathos, pity, ruth |
| commiserative | (adjective) feeling or expressing sympathy | - |
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| compromise | (noun) a middle way between two extremes | Synonyms: via media |
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| (noun) an accommodation in which both sides make concessions | - |
| (verb) settle by concession | - |
| (verb) make a compromise; arrive at a compromise | - |
| (verb) expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute | - |
| compromiser | (noun) a negotiator willing to compromise | - |
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| customise | (verb) make according to requirements | Synonyms: customize |
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| (verb) make to specifications | Synonyms: custom-make, customize, tailor-make |
| demise | (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: death, dying |
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| (verb) transfer by a lease or by a will | - |
| demisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a thirty-second of a whole note | Synonyms: thirty-second note |
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| dichotomise | (verb) divide into two opposing groups or kinds | Synonyms: dichotomize |
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| dynamise | (verb) make (a drug) effective | Synonyms: dynamize |
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| (verb) make more dynamic | Synonyms: dynamize |
| economise | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economize, husband |
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| (verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economize, save |
| economiser | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economizer |
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| epitomise | (verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of | Synonyms: epitomize, typify |
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| euphemise | (verb) refer to something with a euphemism | Synonyms: euphemize |
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| hemidemisemiquaver | (noun) a musical note having the time value of a sixty-fourth of a whole note | Synonyms: sixty-fourth note |
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| hypophysectomise | (verb) remove the pituitary glands | Synonyms: hypophysectomize |
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| hypophysectomised | (adjective) having the pituitary gland removed by surgery | Synonyms: hypophysectomized |
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| immunocompromised | (adjective) unable to develop a normal immune response usually because of malnutrition or immunodeficiency or immunosuppressive therapy | - |
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| itemise | (verb) specify individually | Synonyms: enumerate, itemize, recite |
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| (verb) place on a list of items | Synonyms: itemize |
| legitimise | (verb) make legal | Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimate, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimize |
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| macadamise | (verb) surface with macadam | Synonyms: macadam, macadamize, tarmac |
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| maximise | (verb) make as big or large as possible | Synonyms: maximize |
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| (verb) make the most of | Synonyms: maximize |
| minimise | (verb) make small or insignificant | Synonyms: minimize |
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| (verb) represent as less significant or important | Synonyms: downplay, minimize, understate |
| miser | (noun) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably) | - |
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| miserabilism | (noun) mid-20th century French art movement. | - |
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| miserable | (adjective) of the most contemptible kind | Synonyms: abject, low-down, low, scummy, scurvy |
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| (adjective) of very poor quality or condition | Synonyms: deplorable, execrable, woeful, wretched |
| (adjective) contemptibly small in amount | Synonyms: measly, paltry |
| (adjective) characterized by physical misery | Synonyms: wretched |
| (adjective) deserving or inciting pity | Synonyms: hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched |
| (adjective) very unhappy; full of misery | Synonyms: suffering, wretched |
| miserableness | (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: misery, wretchedness |
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| miserably | (adverb) in a miserable manner | - |
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| miserliness | (noun) total lack of generosity with money | - |
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| miserly | (adjective) (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | Synonyms: mean, mingy, tight |
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| misery | (noun) a feeling of intense unhappiness | - |
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| (noun) a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune | Synonyms: miserableness, wretchedness |
| misestimate | (verb) calculate incorrectly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
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| (verb) to reckon wrongly | Synonyms: miscalculate |
| misestimation | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misreckoning |
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| optimise | (verb) act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world | Synonyms: optimize |
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| (verb) make optimal; get the most out of; use best | Synonyms: optimize |
| (verb) modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost | Synonyms: optimize |
| phlebotomise | (verb) draw blood | Synonyms: bleed, leech, phlebotomize |
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| polemise | (verb) engage in a controversy | Synonyms: polemicise, polemicize, polemize |
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| polychromise | (verb) color with many colors; make polychrome | Synonyms: polychrome, polychromize |
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| premise | (noun) a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | Synonyms: assumption, premiss |
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| (verb) take something as preexisting and given | Synonyms: premiss |
| (verb) set forth beforehand, often as an explanation | - |
| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, preface |
| premises | (noun) land and the buildings on it | - |
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| promise | (noun) grounds for feeling hopeful about the future | Synonyms: hope |
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| (noun) a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future | - |
| (verb) make a promise or commitment | Synonyms: assure |
| (verb) promise to undertake or give | - |
| (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, prognosticate |
| (verb) give grounds for expectations | - |
| promisee | (noun) a person to whom a promise is made | - |
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| promiser | (noun) a person who makes a promise | Synonyms: promisor |
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| randomise | (verb) arrange in random order | Synonyms: randomize |
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| randomised | (adjective) set up or distributed in a deliberately random way | Synonyms: randomized |
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| remise | (noun) (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte) | - |
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| (noun) a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles | Synonyms: carriage house, coach house |
| (noun) an expensive or high-class hackney | - |
| samisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: shamisen |
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| shamisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: samisen |
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| sodomise | (verb) practice anal sex upon | Synonyms: bugger, sodomize |
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| (verb) copulate with an animal | Synonyms: sodomize |
| surmise | (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, supposition, surmisal |
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| (verb) infer from incomplete evidence | - |
| (verb) imagine to be the case or true or probable | Synonyms: suspect |
| systemise | (verb) arrange according to a system or reduce to a system | Synonyms: systematise, systematize, systemize |
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| systemiser | (noun) an organizer who puts things in order | Synonyms: orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemizer |
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| uniformise | (verb) make uniform | Synonyms: uniformize |
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| unpromised | (adjective) not promised in marriage | Synonyms: unengaged, unpledged |
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| vasectomise | (verb) remove the vas deferens | Synonyms: vasectomize |
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| victimise | (verb) punish unjustly | Synonyms: victimize |
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| (verb) make a victim of | Synonyms: victimize |
| victimised | (adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, used, victimized |
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| victimiser | (noun) a person who victimizes others | Synonyms: victimizer |
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