| abacinate | (verb) blind by holding a red-hot metal plate before someone's eyes | - |
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| abalone | (noun) any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior | Synonyms: ear-shell |
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| abampere | (noun) a unit of current equal to 10 amperes | Synonyms: abamp |
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| abase | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: humble, humiliate, mortify, chagrin |
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| abatable | (adjective) capable of being abated | - |
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| abate | (verb) make less active or intense | Synonyms: slack, slake |
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| (verb) become less in amount or intensity | Synonyms: slack, die away, slack off, let up |
| abbe | (noun) a French abbot | - |
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| abbreviate | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: cut, reduce, contract, shorten, abridge, foreshorten |
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| (verb) shorten | - |
| abdicable | (adjective) capable of being discarded or renounced or relinquished | - |
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| abdicate | (verb) give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations | Synonyms: renounce |
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| abduce | (verb) advance evidence for | Synonyms: cite, adduce |
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| abele | (noun) a poplar that is widely cultivated in the United States; has white bark and leaves with whitish undersurfaces | Synonyms: Populus alba, white aspen, white poplar, silver-leaved poplar, aspen poplar |
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| aberrance | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberration, deviance, aberrancy |
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| aberrate | (verb) diverge from the expected | - |
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| (verb) diverge or deviate from the straight path; produce aberration | - |
| abeyance | (noun) temporary cessation or suspension | Synonyms: suspension |
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| abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, execration, detestation, odium, loathing |
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| abidance | (noun) acting according to certain accepted standards | Synonyms: compliance, conformation, conformity |
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| (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: residence, residency |
| (noun) the act of abiding (enduring without yielding) | - |
| abide | (verb) dwell | Synonyms: stay, bide |
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| (verb) put up with something or somebody unpleasant | Synonyms: digest, put up, endure, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, bear, brook, tolerate |
| abience | (noun) (psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object | - |
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| abjure | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: resile, retract, recant, forswear |
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| ablactate | (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk | Synonyms: wean |
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| ablate | (verb) wear away through erosion or vaporization | - |
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| (verb) remove an organ or bodily structure | - |
| ablative | (adjective) tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature | - |
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| (adjective) relating to the ablative case | - |
| (noun) the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb | Synonyms: ablative case |
| ablaze | (adjective) keenly excited (especially sexually) or indicating excitement | Synonyms: aflame, aroused |
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| (adjective) lighted up by or as by fire or flame | Synonyms: on fire, afire, aflame, aflare, alight |
| (adjective) resembling flame in brilliance or color | - |
| (adjective) lighted with red light as if with flames | Synonyms: reddened, inflamed |
| able | (adjective) (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something | - |
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| (adjective) have the skills and qualifications to do things well | Synonyms: capable |
| (adjective) having inherent physical or mental ability or capacity | - |
| (adjective) having a strong healthy body | Synonyms: able-bodied |
| abnegate | (verb) deny oneself (something); restrain, especially from indulging in some pleasure | Synonyms: deny |
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| (verb) surrender (power or a position) | - |
| (verb) deny or renounce | - |
| abode | (noun) any address at which you dwell more than temporarily | Synonyms: residence |
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| (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: habitation, home, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house |
| abolishable | (adjective) capable of being abolished | - |
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| abominable | (adjective) unequivocally detestable | Synonyms: detestable, odious, execrable |
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| (adjective) exceptionally bad or displeasing | Synonyms: unspeakable, dreadful, painful, atrocious, awful, terrible |
| abominate | (verb) find repugnant | Synonyms: execrate, abhor, loathe |
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| aborigine | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: native, indigen, indigene, aboriginal |
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| aborticide | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that causes abortion | Synonyms: abortifacient, abortion-inducing drug |
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| (noun) the act of destroying a fetus | Synonyms: feticide |
| abortive | (adjective) failing to accomplish an intended result | Synonyms: unsuccessful, stillborn |
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| above | (adverb) (in writing) at an earlier place | Synonyms: supra |
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| (adverb) in or to a place that is higher | Synonyms: in a higher place, higher up, to a higher place |
| (adjective) appearing earlier in the same text | - |
| (noun) an earlier section of a written text | - |
| abrade | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: rub down, rub off, corrade, abrase |
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| (verb) rub hard or scrub | Synonyms: scour |
| abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: gill-less, abranchial, abranchious |
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| abrase | (verb) wear away | Synonyms: rub down, rub off, corrade, abrade |
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| abrasive | (noun) a substance that abrades or wears down | Synonyms: abradant, abrasive material |
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| (adjective) causing abrasion | Synonyms: scratchy |
| (adjective) sharply disagreeable; rigorous | Synonyms: harsh |
| abridge | (verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: cut, reduce, contract, shorten, abbreviate, foreshorten |
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| (verb) lessen, diminish, or curtail | - |
| abrocome | (noun) ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | Synonyms: rat chinchilla, chinchilla rat |
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| abrogate | (verb) revoke formally | - |
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| abscise | (verb) shed flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of a scar tissue | - |
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| (verb) remove or separate by abscission | - |
| absence | (noun) the state of being absent | - |
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| (noun) failure to be present | - |
| (noun) the time interval during which something or somebody is away | - |
| (noun) the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: absence seizure |
| absentee | (noun) one that is absent or not in residence | - |
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| absinthe | (noun) aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe | Synonyms: old man, common wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, lad's love |
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| (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinth |
| absolute | (noun) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative | - |
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| (adjective) perfect or complete or pure | - |
| (adjective) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: rank, right-down, downright, out-and-out, sheer |
| (adjective) not limited by law | - |
| (adjective) expressing finality with no implication of possible change | - |
| (adjective) not capable of being violated or infringed | Synonyms: infrangible, inviolable |
| absolve | (verb) grant remission of a sin to | Synonyms: shrive |
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| (verb) let off the hook | Synonyms: free |
| absorbable | (adjective) capable of being absorbed or taken in through the pores of a surface | - |
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| absorbance | (noun) (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: photographic density, optical density, transmission density |
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| absorbate | (noun) a material that has been or is capable of being absorbed | - |
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| absorptance | (noun) a measure of the rate of decrease in the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (as light) as it passes through a given substance; the fraction of incident radiant energy absorbed per unit mass or thickness of an absorber | Synonyms: coefficient of absorption, absorption coefficient |
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| absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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| absquatulate | (verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along | Synonyms: run off, make off, decamp, go off, abscond, bolt |
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| abstinence | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstention |
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| (noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | - |
| abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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| abstruse | (adjective) difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge | Synonyms: recondite, deep |
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| abundance | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: copiousness, teemingness |
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| (noun) (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million | - |
| abuse | (noun) cruel or inhumane treatment | Synonyms: ill-treatment, ill-usage, maltreatment |
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| (noun) a rude expression intended to offend or hurt | Synonyms: insult, revilement, vilification, contumely |
| (noun) improper or excessive use | Synonyms: misuse |
| (verb) treat badly | Synonyms: step, ill-treat, ill-use, maltreat, mistreat |
| (verb) change the inherent purpose or function of something | Synonyms: pervert, misuse |
| (verb) use foul or abusive language towards | Synonyms: shout, clapperclaw, blackguard |
| (verb) use wrongly or improperly or excessively | - |
| abusive | (adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
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| (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
| abye | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: expiate, aby, atone |
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| academe | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academia |
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| acanthocyte | (noun) an abnormal red blood cell that has thorny projections of protoplasm | - |
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| acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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| acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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| acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
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| acaryote | (noun) a cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) | Synonyms: akaryocyte, akaryote |
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| acaudate | (adjective) lacking a tail or taillike appendage | Synonyms: acaudal |
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| accede | (verb) yield to another's wish or opinion | Synonyms: submit, bow, defer, give in |
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| (verb) take on duties or office | Synonyms: enter |
| (verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: acquiesce, assent |
| accelerate | (verb) move faster | Synonyms: speed, quicken, speed up |
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| (verb) cause to move faster | Synonyms: speed, speed up |
| accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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| accentuate | (verb) to stress, single out as important | Synonyms: punctuate, stress, emphasise, emphasize, accent |
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| (verb) put stress on; utter with an accent | Synonyms: stress, accent |
| acceptable | (adjective) worthy of acceptance or satisfactory | - |
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| (adjective) judged to be in conformity with approved usage | - |
| (adjective) meeting requirements | Synonyms: decent, satisfactory |
| (adjective) adequate for the purpose | - |
| acceptance | (noun) the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true | Synonyms: credence |
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| (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: espousal, acceptation, adoption |
| (noun) the state of being acceptable and accepted | - |
| (noun) (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract) | - |
| (noun) a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank | Synonyms: banker's acceptance |
| (noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: toleration, sufferance |
| (noun) the act of taking something that is offered | - |
| acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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| (adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
| accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
| (adjective) easily obtained | - |
| (adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
| accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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| accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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| acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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| acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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| acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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| accolade | (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction | Synonyms: award, honor, honour, laurels |
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| accommodate | (verb) be agreeable or acceptable to | Synonyms: fit, suit |
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| (verb) make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose | Synonyms: adapt |
| (verb) provide with something desired or needed | - |
| (verb) have room for; hold without crowding | Synonyms: hold, admit |
| (verb) provide housing for | Synonyms: lodge |
| (verb) provide a service or favor for someone | Synonyms: oblige |
| (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: reconcile, conciliate |
| accommodative | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodating |
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| (adjective) willing to adjust to differences in order to obtain agreement | Synonyms: cooperative |
| (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: reconciling |
| accomplice | (noun) a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) | Synonyms: confederate |
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| accomplishable | (adjective) capable of existing or taking place or proving true; possible to do | Synonyms: realizable, manageable, doable, achievable |
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| accordance | (noun) concurrence of opinion | Synonyms: conformity, accord |
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| (noun) the act of granting rights | Synonyms: accordance of rights |
| accoucheuse | (noun) a woman skilled in aiding the delivery of babies | Synonyms: midwife |
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| accountable | (adjective) liable to account for one's actions | Synonyms: answerable |
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| accoutre | (verb) provide with military equipment | Synonyms: accouter |
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| accrete | (verb) grow together (of plants and organs) | Synonyms: grow together |
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| (verb) grow or become attached by accretion | - |
| accretive | (adjective) growing by accretion | - |
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| accrue | (verb) grow by addition | - |
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| (verb) come into the possession of | Synonyms: fall |
| acculturate | (verb) assimilate culturally | - |
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| acculturative | (adjective) of or relating to acculturation | Synonyms: acculturational |
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| accumulate | (verb) get or gather together | Synonyms: roll up, hoard, pile up, collect, compile, amass |
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| (verb) increase in amount by collecting or gathering | Synonyms: pile up, amass, gather, conglomerate, cumulate |
| accumulative | (adjective) increasing by successive addition | Synonyms: cumulative |
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| (adjective) marked by acquiring or amassing | - |
| accurate | (adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy | - |
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| (adjective) (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct | Synonyms: precise, exact |
| accurse | (verb) curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment | Synonyms: execrate, comminate, anathematise, anathematize, anathemise, anathemize |
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| accusative | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusatory, accusing, accusive |
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| (adjective) serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes | Synonyms: objective |
| (noun) the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb | Synonyms: objective case, accusative case |
| accuse | (verb) bring an accusation against; level a charge against | Synonyms: incriminate, impeach, criminate |
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| (verb) blame for, make a claim of wrongdoing or misbehavior against | Synonyms: charge |