abbreviate | (verb) shorten | - |
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(verb) reduce in scope while retaining essential elements | Synonyms: abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten |
abranchiate | (adjective) having no gills | Synonyms: abranchial, abranchious, gill-less |
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affiliate | (noun) a subsidiary or subordinate organization that is affiliated with another organization | - |
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(noun) a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization | - |
(verb) join in an affiliation | - |
(verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: associate, assort, consort |
alleviate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: assuage, palliate, relieve |
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(verb) make easier | Synonyms: ease, facilitate |
ammoniate | (verb) treat with ammonia | - |
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annunciate | (verb) foreshadow or presage | Synonyms: announce, foretell, harbinger, herald |
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appreciate | (verb) gain in value | Synonyms: apprise, apprize, revalue |
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(verb) increase the value of | Synonyms: apprise, apprize |
(verb) be fully aware of; realize fully | Synonyms: take account |
(verb) recognize with gratitude; be grateful for | - |
(verb) hold dear | Synonyms: prize, treasure, value |
appropriate | (adjective) suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc | - |
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(adjective) meant or adapted for an occasion or use | Synonyms: suitable, suited |
(verb) give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause | Synonyms: allow, earmark, reserve, set aside |
(verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: capture, conquer, seize |
archegoniate | (adjective) of or relating to an archegonium | Synonyms: archegonial |
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asphyxiate | (verb) be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen | Synonyms: stifle, suffocate |
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(verb) deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing | Synonyms: smother, suffocate |
(verb) impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of | Synonyms: choke, stifle, suffocate |
associate | (adjective) having partial rights and privileges or subordinate status | - |
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(noun) a degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies | Synonyms: associate degree |
(noun) any event that usually accompanies or is closely connected with another | - |
(noun) a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor | - |
(noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: companion, comrade, familiar, fellow |
(noun) a person with subordinate membership in a society, institution, or commercial enterprise | - |
(verb) make a logical or causal connection | Synonyms: colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in |
(verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: consociate |
(verb) keep company with; hang out with | Synonyms: affiliate, assort, consort |
aviate | (verb) operate an airplane | Synonyms: fly, pilot |
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beneficiate | (verb) process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction | - |
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benficiate | (verb) subject to a reduction process | - |
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bifoliate | (adjective) having two leaves | - |
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bilabiate | (adjective) having two lips | Synonyms: two-lipped |
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bivariate | (adjective) having two variables | - |
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bloviate | (verb) orate verbosely and windily | - |
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brachiate | (adjective) having arms or armlike appendages | - |
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(adjective) having widely spreading paired branches | - |
(verb) swing from one hold to the next | - |
branchiate | (adjective) provided with gills | Synonyms: gilled |
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brecciate | (verb) break into breccia | - |
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(verb) form into breccia | - |
calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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ciliate | (adjective) of or relating to the human eyelash | Synonyms: ciliary |
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(adjective) of or relating to cilia projecting from the surface of a cell | Synonyms: cilial, ciliary |
(adjective) having a margin or fringe of hairlike projections | Synonyms: ciliated |
(noun) a protozoan with a microscopic appendage extending from the surface of the cell | Synonyms: ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran |
circumstantiate | (verb) give circumstantial evidence for | - |
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collegiate | (adjective) of or resembling or typical of a college or college students | Synonyms: collegial |
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conciliate | (verb) make (one thing) compatible with (another) | Synonyms: accommodate, reconcile |
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(verb) come to terms | Synonyms: make up, patch up, reconcile, settle |
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, pacify, placate |
consociate | (verb) bring or come into association or action | Synonyms: associate |
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consubstantiate | (verb) become united in substance | - |
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(verb) unite in one common substance | - |
craniate | (noun) animals having a bony or cartilaginous skeleton with a segmented spinal column and a large brain enclosed in a skull or cranium | Synonyms: vertebrate |
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cruciate | (adjective) shaped like a cross | Synonyms: cruciform |
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dedifferentiate | (verb) lose specialization in form or function | - |
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defoliate | (adjective) deprived of leaves | Synonyms: defoliated |
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(verb) strip the leaves or branches from | - |
depreciate | (verb) lose in value | Synonyms: devaluate, devalue, undervalue |
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(verb) lower the value of something | - |
(verb) belittle | Synonyms: deprecate, vilipend |
deviate | (adjective) markedly different from an accepted norm | Synonyms: aberrant, deviant |
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(noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
(verb) turn aside; turn away from | Synonyms: divert |
(verb) cause to turn away from a previous or expected course | - |
(verb) be at variance with; be out of line with | Synonyms: depart, diverge, vary |
dibranchiate | (noun) cephalopods having two gills | Synonyms: dibranch, dibranchiate mollusk |
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differentiate | (verb) become distinct and acquire a different character | - |
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(verb) become different during development | - |
(verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: specialise, specialize, speciate |
(verb) calculate a derivative; take the derivative | - |
(verb) mark as different | Synonyms: distinguish, secern, secernate, separate, severalise, severalize, tell, tell apart |
(verb) be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense | Synonyms: distinguish, mark |
disassociate | (verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disjoint, dissociate, disunite, divorce |
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dissociate | (verb) to undergo a reversible or temporary breakdown of a molecule into simpler molecules or atoms | - |
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(verb) regard as unconnected | Synonyms: decouple |
(verb) part; cease or break association with | Synonyms: disassociate, disjoint, disunite, divorce |
domiciliate | (verb) provide someone with accomodation | Synonyms: house, put up |
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(verb) make one's home in a particular place or community | Synonyms: domicile, reside, shack |
emaciate | (verb) grow weak and thin or waste away physically | - |
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(verb) cause to grow thin or weak | Synonyms: macerate, waste |
enunciate | (verb) express or state clearly | Synonyms: articulate, vocalise, vocalize |
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(verb) speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way | Synonyms: articulate, enounce, pronounce, say, sound out |
eusporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells | - |
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excoriate | (verb) express strong disapproval of | Synonyms: condemn, decry, objurgate, reprobate |
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(verb) tear or wear off the skin or make sore by abrading | Synonyms: chafe |
excruciate | (verb) subject to torture | Synonyms: torment, torture |
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(verb) torment emotionally or mentally | Synonyms: rack, torment, torture |
exfoliate | (verb) grow by producing or unfolding leaves | - |
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(verb) cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters | - |
(verb) remove the surface, in scales or laminae | - |
(verb) spread by opening the leaves of | - |
(verb) come off in a very thin piece | - |
expatiate | (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing | Synonyms: dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, exposit, expound, flesh out, lucubrate |
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expatriate | (noun) a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country | Synonyms: exile, expat |
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(verb) move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad | - |
(verb) expel from a country | Synonyms: deport, exile |
expiate | (verb) make amends for | Synonyms: aby, abye, atone |
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expropriate | (verb) deprive of possessions | - |
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exuviate | (verb) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers | Synonyms: molt, moult, shed, slough |
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fastigiate | (adjective) having clusters of erect branches (often appearing to form a single column) | - |
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filiate | (verb) fix the paternity of | - |
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fimbriate | (adjective) having a fringe of slender processes | - |
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foliate | (adjective) ornamented with foliage or foils | Synonyms: foliated |
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(adjective) (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves | - |
(adjective) (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata | Synonyms: foliaceous, foliated |
(verb) grow leaves | - |
(verb) number the pages of a book or manuscript | Synonyms: page, paginate |
(verb) coat or back with metal foil | - |
(verb) hammer into thin flat foils | - |
(verb) decorate with leaves | - |
glaciate | (verb) become frozen and covered with glaciers | - |
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(verb) cover with ice or snow or a glacier | - |
hellgrammiate | (noun) large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait | Synonyms: dobson |
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humiliate | (verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, mortify |
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immediate | (adjective) having no intervening medium | - |
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(adjective) very close or connected in space or time | Synonyms: contiguous |
(adjective) performed with little or no delay | Synonyms: prompt, quick, straightaway |
(adjective) of the present time and place | - |
(adjective) immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect | - |
inappropriate | (adjective) not suitable for a particular occasion etc | - |
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(adjective) not in keeping with what is correct or proper | Synonyms: incompatible, out of keeping, unfitting |
inebriate | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino |
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(verb) become drunk or drink excessively | Synonyms: hit it up, soak, souse |
(verb) make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | Synonyms: intoxicate, soak |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: beatify, exalt, exhilarate, thrill, tickle pink |
infuriate | (verb) make furious | Synonyms: exasperate, incense |
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ingratiate | (verb) gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | - |
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initiate | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: enlightened |
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(noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: learned person, pundit, savant |
(noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, novice, tiro, tyro |
(verb) set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for | Synonyms: lead up |
(verb) bring up a topic for discussion | Synonyms: broach |
(verb) take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of | Synonyms: pioneer |
(verb) bring into being | Synonyms: originate, start |
(verb) accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite | Synonyms: induct |
insatiate | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiable, unsatiable |
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instantiate | (verb) find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) | - |
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(verb) represent by an instance | - |
intercollegiate | (adjective) used of competition between colleges or universities | - |
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intermediate | (adjective) lying between two extremes in time or space or state | - |
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(adjective) around the middle of a scale of evaluation | Synonyms: average, medium |
(noun) a substance formed during a chemical process before the desired product is obtained | - |
(verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, liaise, mediate |
irradiate | (verb) expose to radiation | Synonyms: ray |
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(verb) cast rays of light upon | - |
(verb) give spiritual insight to; in religion | Synonyms: enlighten |
labiate | (adjective) having lips or parts that resemble lips | Synonyms: liplike |
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laciniate | (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: fringed |
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leptosporangiate | (adjective) (of ferns) having each sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell | - |
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licentiate | (noun) holds a license (degree) from a (European) university | - |
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luxuriate | (verb) thrive profusely or flourish extensively | - |
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(verb) become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously | Synonyms: wanton |
(verb) enjoy to excess | Synonyms: indulge |
mediate | (adjective) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency | - |
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(adjective) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series | Synonyms: in-between, middle |
(verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences | Synonyms: arbitrate, intercede, intermediate, liaise |
(verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others | - |
miniate | (verb) paint with red lead or vermilion | - |
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(verb) decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red | Synonyms: rubricate |
misappropriate | (verb) appropriate (as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use | Synonyms: defalcate, embezzle, malversate, peculate |
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multivariate | (adjective) pertaining to any procedure involving two or more variables | - |
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negociate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negotiate, talk terms |
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(verb) confer with another in order to come to terms or reach an agreement | - |
(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negotiate |
(verb) transfer by endorsement to another in return for value received | - |
(verb) sell or discount | - |
(verb) be successful; achieve a goal | Synonyms: bring off, carry off, manage, pull off |
negotiate | (verb) discuss the terms of an arrangement | Synonyms: negociate, talk terms |
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(verb) succeed in passing through, around, or over | Synonyms: negociate |
noviciate | (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: novitiate |
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novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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(noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
obviate | (verb) prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; to protect from or to keep away anything undesirable; to ward off | Synonyms: avert, avoid, debar, deflect, fend off, forefend, forfend, head off, stave off, ward off |
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(verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: eliminate, rid of |
officiate | (verb) perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function | Synonyms: function |
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(verb) act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding | - |
opiate | (noun) a narcotic drug that contains opium or an opium derivative | - |
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palliate | (verb) provide physical relief, as from pain | Synonyms: alleviate, assuage, relieve |
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(verb) lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of | Synonyms: extenuate, mitigate |
patriciate | (noun) members of the patrician class. | - |
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perfoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf) having the base united around (and apparently pierced by) the stem | - |
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potentiate | (verb) increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) | - |
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propitiate | (verb) make peace with | Synonyms: appease |
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quinquefoliate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having five leaflets | - |
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radiate | (adjective) having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies | - |
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(adjective) arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center | Synonyms: radial, stellate |
(verb) send out real or metaphoric rays; the children radiated joyous energy | - |
(verb) issue or emerge in rays or waves | - |
(verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: diversify |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, shine |
(verb) cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays | - |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, shine |
(verb) extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center | Synonyms: ray |
(verb) send out rays or waves | - |
remediate | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, rectify, remedy, repair |
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renegociate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegotiate |
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(verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegotiate |
renegotiate | (verb) revise the terms of in order to limit or regain excess profits gained by the contractor | Synonyms: renegociate |
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(verb) negociate anew | Synonyms: renegociate |
repatriate | (noun) a person who has returned to the country of origin or whose citizenship has been restored | - |
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(verb) admit back into the country | - |
(verb) send someone back to his homeland against his will, as of refugees | - |
repudiate | (verb) refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid | - |
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(verb) cast off | Synonyms: disown, renounce |
(verb) reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust | - |
(verb) refuse to recognize or pay | - |
retaliate | (verb) make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil | Synonyms: strike back |
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(verb) take revenge for a perceived wrong | Synonyms: avenge, revenge |
satiate | (adjective) supplied (especially fed) to satisfaction | Synonyms: satiated |
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(verb) fill to satisfaction | Synonyms: fill, replete, sate |
(verb) overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself | Synonyms: binge, englut, engorge, glut, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, scarf out, stuff |
secretariate | (noun) an administrative unit responsible for maintaining records and other secretarial duties; especially for international organizations | Synonyms: secretariat |
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speciate | (verb) evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment | Synonyms: differentiate, specialise, specialize |
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