| appease | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: propitiate |
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| (verb) overcome or allay | Synonyms: quell, stay |
| (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
| cease | (noun) (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end | - |
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| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
| crease | (noun) a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade | Synonyms: creese, kris |
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| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle |
| (noun) an angular or rounded shape made by folding | Synonyms: bend, crimp, flexure, fold, plication |
| (verb) become wrinkled or crumpled or creased | Synonyms: crinkle, crumple, rumple, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic | Synonyms: crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle |
| (verb) make wrinkled or creased | Synonyms: furrow, wrinkle |
| (verb) scrape gently | Synonyms: graze, rake |
| decease | (noun) the event of dying or departure from life | Synonyms: death, expiry |
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| (verb) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it |
| decrease | (noun) the act of decreasing or reducing something | Synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down |
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| (noun) the amount by which something decreases | Synonyms: decrement |
| (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: drop-off, lessening |
| (noun) a process of becoming smaller or shorter | Synonyms: decrement |
| (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: diminish, fall, lessen |
| (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: lessen, minify |
| degrease | (verb) remove grease or oil from (a pan) | - |
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| disease | (noun) an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning | - |
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| displease | (verb) give displeasure to | - |
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| ease | (noun) freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility) | Synonyms: relaxation, repose, rest |
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| (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: easiness, simpleness, simplicity |
| (noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: informality |
| (noun) a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state | Synonyms: comfort |
| (noun) the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress) | Synonyms: relief |
| (verb) lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate | Synonyms: comfort |
| (verb) make easier | Synonyms: alleviate, facilitate |
| (verb) lessen the intensity of or calm | Synonyms: allay, relieve, still |
| (verb) move gently or carefully | - |
| endonuclease | (noun) a nuclease that cleaves nucleic acids at interior bonds and so produces fragments of various sizes | - |
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| exonuclease | (noun) a nuclease that releases one nucleotide at a time (serially) beginning at one of a nucleic acid | - |
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| grease | (noun) anything regarded as making something unclean | Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, grunge, soil, stain |
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| (noun) a thick fatty oil (especially one used to lubricate machinery) | Synonyms: lubricating oil |
| (verb) lubricate with grease | - |
| heartsease | (noun) the absence of mental stress or anxiety | Synonyms: ataraxis, peace, peace of mind, peacefulness, repose, serenity |
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| (noun) common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers | Synonyms: field pansy, Viola arvensis |
| (noun) violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet | Synonyms: two-eyed violet, Viola ocellata |
| (noun) a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived | Synonyms: Johnny-jump-up, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor, wild pansy |
| increase | (noun) the act of increasing something | Synonyms: step-up |
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| (noun) the amount by which something increases | Synonyms: increment |
| (noun) a change resulting in an increase | - |
| (noun) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important | Synonyms: growth, increment |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: addition, gain |
| (verb) become bigger or greater in amount | - |
| (verb) make bigger or more | - |
| lease | (noun) a contract granting use or occupation of property during a specified time for a specified payment | - |
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| (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: letting, rental |
| (noun) the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect | Synonyms: term of a contract |
| (verb) engage for service under a term of contract | Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, rent, take |
| (verb) grant use or occupation of under a term of contract | Synonyms: let, rent |
| (verb) let for money | Synonyms: rent |
| (verb) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services | Synonyms: charter, hire, rent |
| nuclease | (noun) general term for enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of nucleic acid by cleaving chains of nucleotides into smaller units | - |
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| please | (adverb) used in polite request | - |
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| (verb) give pleasure to or be pleasing to | Synonyms: delight |
| (verb) be the will of or have the will (to) | - |
| (verb) give satisfaction | - |
| predecease | (verb) die before; die earlier than | - |
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| protease | (noun) any enzyme that catalyzes the splitting of proteins into smaller peptide fractions and amino acids by a process known as proteolysis | Synonyms: peptidase, proteinase, proteolytic enzyme |
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| release | (noun) activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion | Synonyms: outlet, vent |
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| (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: freeing, liberation |
| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape | Synonyms: spill, spillage |
| (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment | Synonyms: discharge, waiver |
| (noun) (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone | Synonyms: tone ending |
| (noun) merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film) | - |
| (noun) a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism | Synonyms: button |
| (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation | Synonyms: handout, press release |
| (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: acquittance |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing |
| (noun) a process that liberates or discharges something | - |
| (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids | Synonyms: secrete |
| (verb) eliminate (a substance) | Synonyms: discharge, eject, exhaust, expel |
| (verb) make (assets) available | Synonyms: free, unblock, unfreeze |
| (verb) prepare and issue for public distribution or sale | Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, put out |
| (verb) release, as from one's grip | Synonyms: let go, let go of, relinquish |
| (verb) let (something) fall or spill from a container | Synonyms: turn |
| (verb) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition | Synonyms: free, liberate |
| (verb) part with a possession or right | Synonyms: free, give up, relinquish, resign |
| (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement | Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, unloose, unloosen |
| (verb) make (information) available for publication | Synonyms: free |
| ribonuclease | (noun) a transferase that catalyzes the hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid | Synonyms: ribonucleinase, RNase |
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| striptease | (noun) a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music | Synonyms: strip, strip show |
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| (noun) a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music | Synonyms: ecdysiast, exotic dancer, peeler, stripper, striptease artist, stripteaser |
| sublease | (noun) a lease from one lessee to another | Synonyms: sublet |
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| (verb) lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person | Synonyms: sublet |
| surcease | (noun) a stopping | Synonyms: cessation |
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| tease | (noun) the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances | Synonyms: ribbing, tantalization, teasing |
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| (noun) someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity) | Synonyms: annoyer, teaser, vexer |
| (noun) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men | Synonyms: coquette, flirt, minx, prickteaser, vamp, vamper |
| (verb) ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect | Synonyms: fluff |
| (verb) harass with persistent criticism or carping | Synonyms: bait, cod, rag, rally, razz, ride, tantalise, tantalize, taunt, twit |
| (verb) mock or make fun of playfully | - |
| (verb) separate the fibers of | Synonyms: card |
| (verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: loosen, tease apart |
| (verb) raise the nap of (fabrics) | - |
| (verb) tear into pieces | - |
| (verb) annoy persistently | Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, bug, pester |
| (verb) to arouse hope, desire, or curiosity without satisfying them | - |
| unease | (noun) the trait of seeming ill at ease | Synonyms: disquiet, uneasiness |
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| (noun) physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression) | Synonyms: malaise, uneasiness |
| urease | (noun) an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria | - |
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