To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.
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To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
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To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.
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To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.
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To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
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To deprive of color; to make achromatic.
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To make active.
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Fitted; suited.
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To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
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To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…
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To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.
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To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
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To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
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To change by alchemy; to transmute.
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To reduce to a fine powder.
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Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
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To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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To change or modify in any way for the better
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To render American; to assimilate to the Americans in customs, ideas, etc.; to stamp with American characteristics.
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To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
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To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.
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To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.
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Old; ancient; of genuine antiquity; as, an antique statue. In this sense it usually refers to the flourishing ages of Greece and Rome.
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To make appear archaic or antique.
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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…
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To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial.
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A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus e…
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To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
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To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature.
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Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
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To become barbarous.
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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
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To make dim; to obscure or darken.
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To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
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To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.
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To make bestial, or like a beast; to degrade; to brutalize.
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To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
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Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
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A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fl…
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Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
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To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…
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To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
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To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
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A thin film of liquid inflated with air or gas; as, a soap bubble; bubbles on the surface of a river.
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An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
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The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc.
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The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.
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To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…
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A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
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The string of a musical instrument.
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To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.
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To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
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A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
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Coagulated.
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To make coarse or vulgar; as, to coarsen one's character.
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To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
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To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…
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To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.
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The black grime or soot of coal.
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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…
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See Color.
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Burnt; consumed.
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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
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To mix or mingle together; to blend.
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To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…
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To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…
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Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…
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To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
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Mixed; confounded.
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To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
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To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) f…
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To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.
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To cause to turn; to turn.
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To make the noise of the cuckoo.
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Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…
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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
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To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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To break into pieces; to crush; to grind to powder. See Crase.
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The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from w…
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
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A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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To make dark or black; to deprive of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room.
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To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers o…
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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…
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To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self b…
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To prevent from centralizing; to cause to withdraw from the center or place of concentration; to divide and distribute (what has been united or conce…
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To reduce to a decimal system; as, to decimalize the currency.
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To withdraw from concentration; to decentralize.
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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…
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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…
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To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
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To reduce from an inflated condition.
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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
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To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.
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A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
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To deprive of magnetic properties. See Magnetize.
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To render democratic.
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To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.
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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…
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To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
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To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
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To deprive of odor, especially of such as results from impurities.
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To deprive of polarity; to reduce to an unpolarized condition.
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To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
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To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…
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To make a devil of.
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To render diabolical.
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To finger; as, to digitize a pen.
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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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Lacking ability; unable.
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To alienate or diminish the affection of; to make unfriendly or less friendly; to fill with discontent and unfriendliness.
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To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
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To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…
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To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was…
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To disable; to disqualify.
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To separate into integrant parts; to reduce to fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, fros…
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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.
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To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter…
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state,…
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To render dissimilar.
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To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to term…
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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
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To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
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Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct.
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To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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Free from moisture; having little humidity or none; arid; not wet or moist; deficient in the natural or normal supply of moisture, as rain or fluid o…
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Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
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To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to e…
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To make effeminate.
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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…
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Elevated; raised aloft.
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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…
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Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…
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To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely di…
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To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…
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To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
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To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as…
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Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…
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To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
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To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to me…
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To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with.
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To make eternal.
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To make eternal or endless.
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To convert into ether, or into subtile fluid; to saturate with ether.
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To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
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To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
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To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible.
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Evening. See Eve, n. 1.
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To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease.
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Exasperated; imbittered.
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The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…
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Cut off; set apart.
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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
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To make external; to manifest by outward form.
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To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
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A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
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To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
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To make fruitful or prolific.
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To make womanish or effeminate.
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To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows.
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One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
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Fixed; solidified.
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To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.
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That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.
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(physics) the six kinds of quarks
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To aggregate into small lumps.
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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
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To add strength to; to strengthen; to confirm; to furnish with power to resist attack.
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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…
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A frieze.
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To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
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To make fresh; to separate, as water, from saline ingredients; to make less salt; as, to freshen water, fish, or flesh.
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Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anythin…
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To convert into gelatin or jelly. Same as Gelatinate, v. t.
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Jet, the mineral.
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To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.
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Gone.
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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.
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To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
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Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
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To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
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To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
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A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…
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To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
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A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
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Color or shade of color; tint; dye.
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To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.
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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
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To hydrogenize.
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To render immaterial or incorporeal.
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Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
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To render immortal; to cause to live or exist forever.
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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
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To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warm…
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…
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To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
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The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality.
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Blown in; inflated.
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To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
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Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
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To sow; to impregnate.
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To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.
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To make an island of.
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To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
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To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…
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To make international; to cause to affect the mutual relations of two or more nations; as, to internationalize a principle of law, or a philanthropic…
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To turn or bend inward.
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To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an…
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To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of…
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To conform, or cause to conform, to the religion of Islam.
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A kiln.
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That which binds or holds, especially by being interwoven; a string, cord, or band, usually one passing through eyelet or other holes, and used in dr…
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Urine. See Lant.
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Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession…
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To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.
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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…
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To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices.
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To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind…
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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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To descend; to light.
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To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
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To render liquid.
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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
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To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a…
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Compar. of Low, a.
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To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied.
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To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
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To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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A license of reprisals. See Marque.
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A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and…
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Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…
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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…
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To cause to be mechanical.
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
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To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
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To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse…
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To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
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To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
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To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…
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Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
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To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
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To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.
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To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a…
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To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
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To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.
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An evil spirit of the waters.
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Obfuscated; darkened; obscured.
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To cause to become an object; to cause to assume the character of an object; to render objective.
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To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.
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To cloud; to obscure.
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Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim.
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To convert into opal, or a substance like opal.
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Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…
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to render Oriental; to cause to conform to Oriental manners or conditions.
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That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.
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To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
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To cover or overspread with clouds; to becloud; to overcast.
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To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
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To oxidize.
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To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, or of an oxidizing agent.
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To oxidize.
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To render pagan or heathenish; to convert to paganism.
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Same as Pawl.
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Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
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Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
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To make personal.
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To turnanother way; to divert.
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Well rounded or filled out; full; fleshy; fat; as, a plump baby; plump cheeks.
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To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…
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Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…
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To communicate polarity to.
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A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
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To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…
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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…
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Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
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To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
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To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…
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A pit.
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To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the k…
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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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To make rare, thin, porous, or less dense; to expand or enlarge without adding any new portion of matter to; -- opposed to condense.
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To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.
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Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement o…
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To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
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To combine again.
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To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a fav…
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To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
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To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…
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To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
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To dress again.
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To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.
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To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…
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To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…
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To make fresh again; to restore strength, spirit, animation, or the like, to; to relieve from fatigue or depression; to reinvigorate; to enliven anew…
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Reproduced.
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To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king…
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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…
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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
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To model or fashion anew; to change the form of.
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To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
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To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
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To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in progress; to impede; to hinder; as, to retard the march of…
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Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
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To change completely, as by a revolution; as, to revolutionize a government.
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Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
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To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.
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To whisper.
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To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
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To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
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To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
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To convert into soap, as tallow or any fat; hence (Chem.), to subject to any similar process, as that which ethereal salts undergo in decomposition;…
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In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…
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To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.
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A composition of condiments and appetizing ingredients eaten with food as a relish; especially, a dressing for meat or fish or for puddings; as, mint…
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To form a scheme or schemes.
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To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., ca…
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To render sensitive, or susceptible of being easily acted on by the actinic rays of the sun; as, sensitized paper or plate.
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To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
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of Set
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To attribute sex to.
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Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…
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obs. p. p. of Shake.
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Not deep; having little depth; shoal.
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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
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To make sharp.
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
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To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…
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To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.
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Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
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Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
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To render social.
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To make soft or more soft.
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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…
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To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.
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To mention specially; to particularize.
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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
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Species; kind.
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A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
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To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spir…
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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
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To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.
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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
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To leap; to jump.
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To become steep or steeper.
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To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
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Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.
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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
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To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
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To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.
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A small cord, a line, a twine, or a slender strip of leather, or other substance, used for binding together, fastening, or tying things; a cord, larg…
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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
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To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
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One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else
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To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.
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To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.
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To charge (a bearing) upon another bearing; as, to supercharge a rose upon a fess.
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Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
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To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
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To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.
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A small, flexible twig or rod.
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To make proportional in its parts; to reduce to symmetry.
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To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
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To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."
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To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
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To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…
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One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…
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To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
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To enlarge by extension of territory.
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To make thick (in any sense of the word).
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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
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To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…
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To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
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To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
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To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
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To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.
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To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or proposi…
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To change into another substance.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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To disfigure; to make ugly.
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To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.
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To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…
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To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.
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To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…
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To make loose; to loosen; to set free.
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To loosen; to unloose.
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To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate.
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To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.
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To make unsubstantial.
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To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.
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To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.
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To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.
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To confirm; to render valid; to give legal force to.
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To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors.
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Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar…
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To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a…
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Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.
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To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.
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To endow with life, or vitality; to give life to; to make alive; as, vitalized blood.
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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…
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To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
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To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate.
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Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
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To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor.
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To make vulgar, or common.
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The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
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To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
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Having heat in a moderate degree; not cold as, warm milk.
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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…
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Containing, or consisting of, water or other liquid; moist; soaked with a liquid; having water or other liquid upon the surface; as, wet land; a wet…
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To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
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To make like a woman; to make effeminate.
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To make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.
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To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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Jet, the mineral.
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To lead in; to introduce.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…
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The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
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The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.
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Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
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Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…
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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…
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One who, or that which, modifies.
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One who, or that which, modifies.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the k…
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
Curated member of Words for change.
To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
Make a limited or controlled adjustment.
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Modify suggests a deliberate partial adjustment.
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