acervate | (adjective) pertaining to a growth of fungi that forms a heaped-up mass | - |
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activate | (verb) make active or more active | - |
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(verb) make (substances) radioactive | - |
(verb) aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | Synonyms: aerate |
(verb) make more adsorptive | - |
(verb) put in motion or move to act | Synonyms: actuate, set off, spark, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip |
aestivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: estivate |
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aggravate | (verb) make worse | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate, worsen |
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(verb) exasperate or irritate | Synonyms: exacerbate, exasperate |
captivate | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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cultivate | (verb) adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment | Synonyms: domesticate, naturalise, naturalize, tame |
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(verb) prepare for crops | Synonyms: crop, work |
(verb) teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment | Synonyms: civilise, civilize, educate, school, train |
(verb) promote the growth of | Synonyms: foster, further |
deactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: inactivate |
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(verb) remove from active military status or reassign | - |
elevate | (verb) raise in rank or condition | Synonyms: lift, raise |
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(verb) raise from a lower to a higher position | Synonyms: bring up, get up, lift, raise |
(verb) give a promotion to or assign to a higher position | Synonyms: advance, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade |
enervate | (verb) weaken mentally or morally | - |
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(verb) disturb the composure of | Synonyms: faze, unnerve, unsettle |
estivate | (verb) sleep during summer | Synonyms: aestivate |
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excavate | (verb) find by digging in the ground | Synonyms: dig up, turn up |
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(verb) remove the inner part or the core of | Synonyms: dig, hollow |
(verb) form by hollowing | - |
(verb) recover through digging | Synonyms: unearth |
inactivate | (verb) make inactive | Synonyms: deactivate |
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(verb) release from military service or remove from the active list of military service | Synonyms: demobilise, demobilize |
incurvate | (adjective) bent into or having an inward curve | Synonyms: incurved |
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(verb) cause to curve inward | - |
(verb) bend inwards | - |
innervate | (verb) stimulate to action | - |
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(verb) supply nerves to (some organ or body part) | - |
innovate | (verb) bring something new to an environment | Synonyms: introduce |
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motivate | (verb) give an incentive for action | Synonyms: actuate, incite, move, prompt, propel |
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novate | (verb) replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one | - |
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obovate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) egg-shaped with the narrower end at the base | - |
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ovate | (adjective) rounded like an egg | Synonyms: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval-shaped, oval, oviform, ovoid, prolate |
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(adjective) of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the broader end at the base | - |
overcultivate | (verb) to exhaust by excessive cultivation | Synonyms: overcrop |
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private | (adjective) confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy | - |
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(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: secret |
(adjective) concerning one person exclusively | Synonyms: individual |
(adjective) concerning things deeply private and personal | Synonyms: intimate |
(noun) an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines | Synonyms: buck private, common soldier |
reactivate | (verb) activate (an old file) anew | - |
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recidivate | (verb) go back to bad behavior | Synonyms: fall back, lapse, regress, relapse, retrogress |
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recurvate | (adjective) curved backward or inward | Synonyms: recurved |
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renovate | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify |
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(verb) restore to a previous or better condition | Synonyms: restitute |
(verb) make brighter and prettier | Synonyms: freshen up, refurbish |
salivate | (verb) produce saliva | - |
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(verb) be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something | Synonyms: drool |
semiprivate | (adjective) confined to a small number of hospital patients | - |
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solvate | (noun) a compound formed by solvation (the combination of solvent molecules with molecules or ions of the solute) | - |
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(verb) undergo solvation or convert into a solvate | - |
(verb) cause a solvation in (a substance) | - |
titivate | (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, tittivate |
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tittivate | (verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce, spruce up, titivate |
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