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redundant

The adj redundant has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (2) excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus – (more than is needed, desired, or required; “trying to lose excess weight”; “found some extra change lying on the dresser”; “yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant”; “skills made redundant by technological advance”; “sleeping in the spare room”; “supernumerary ornamentation”; “it was supererogatory of her to gloat”; “delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words”; “extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts”; “surplus cheese distributed to the needy”)
   INDIRECT (VIA unnecessary) -> necessary – (absolutely essential)
   RELATED TO->(noun) redundance#1

• redundancy, redundance – (the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; “the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers”)
  RELATED TO->(noun) redundancy#1
• redundancy – (repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission)
  RELATED TO->(noun) redundancy#3
• redundancy – ((electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails)
  RELATED TO->(noun) redundancy#2
• redundancy, redundance – (the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; “the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers”)
  RELATED TO->(noun) redundancy#4
• redundancy – (repetition of an act needlessly)

2. pleonastic, redundant, tautologic, tautological – (repetition of same sense in different words; “a true fact' anda free gift’ are pleonastic expressions”; “the phrase `a beginner who has just started’ is tautological”; “at the risk of being redundant I return to my original proposition”- J.B.Conant)
   INDIRECT (VIA prolix) -> concise – (expressing much in few words; “a concise explanation”)
   RELATED TO->(noun) redundancy#2

• redundancy, redundance – (the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; “the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers”)
  RELATED TO->(noun) redundancy#4
• redundancy – (repetition of an act needlessly)

  anarchist

  1 sense of anarchist
  Sense 1
  anarchist, nihilist, syndicalist – (an advocate of anarchism)
• radical – (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)
  • anarchist, nihilist, syndicalist – (an advocate of anarchism)
  • Bolshevik, Marxist, red, bolshie, bolshy – (emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries)
  • extremist – (a person who holds extreme views)
  • leveler, leveller – (a radical who advocates the abolition of political or economic or social inequalities)
  • revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter – (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)
  • terrorist – (a radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities)
  • Trotskyite, Trotskyist, Trot – (radicals who support Trotsky’s theory that socialism must be established throughout the world by continuing revolution)
  • Wobbly – (a member of the Industrial Workers of the World)
  • Young Turk – (a young radical who agitates for reform)

    jocund

    1 sense of jocund

Sense 1
gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful – (full of or showing high-spirited merriment; “when hearts were young and gay”; “a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company”- Wordsworth; “the jolly crowd at the reunion”; “jolly old Saint Nick”; “a jovial old gentleman”; “have a merry Christmas”; “peals of merry laughter”; “a mirthful laugh”)

- joyous (vs. joyless) -- (full of or characterized by joy; "felt a joyous abandon"; "joyous laughter")

INDIRECT (VIA joyous) -> joyless – (not experiencing or inspiring joy; “a joyless man”; “a joyless occasion”; “joyless evenings”)
RELATED TO->(noun) jocundity#1

- jocundity, jocularity -- (a feeling facetious merriment)

prowl

1 sense of prowl

Sense 1
prowl – (the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner))

• walk, walking – (the act of traveling by foot; “walking is a healthy form of exercise”)
  • ambulation – (walking about; “the hospital encouraged early ambulation”)
  • sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation – (walking by a person who is asleep)
  • gait – (a person’s manner of walking)
  • march, marching – (the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind); “it was a long march”; “we heard the sound of marching”)
  • plodding, plod – (the act of walking with a slow heavy gait; “I could recognize his plod anywhere”)
  • prowl – (the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner))
  • shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling – (walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; “from his shambling I assumed he was very old”)
  • wading – (walking with your feet in shallow water)

2 senses of prowl

Sense 1
prowl – (move about in or as if in a predatory manner; “The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town”)

• walk – (use one’s feet to advance; advance by steps; “Walk, don’t run!”; “We walked instead of driving”; “She walks with a slight limp”; “The patient cannot walk yet”; “Walk over to the cabinet”)
  • tramp down, trample, tread down – (walk on and flatten; “tramp down the grass”; “trample the flowers”)
  • lollop – (walk clumsily and with a bounce)
  • tap – (walk with a tapping sound)
  • stumble, falter, bumble – (walk unsteadily; “The drunk man stumbled about”)
  • spacewalk – (move in space outside a space craft)
  • foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it – (walk; “let’s hoof it to the disco”)
  • toe – (walk so that the toes assume an indicated position or direction; “She toes inwards”)
  • traipse, shlep – (walk or tramp about)
  • perambulate, walk about, walk around – (walk with no particular goal; “we were walking around in the garden”; “after breakfast, she walked about in the park”)
  • ambulate – (walk about; not be bedridden or incapable of walking)
  • sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot – (to go stealthily or furtively; “..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor’s house”)
  • wade – (walk (through relatively shallow water); “Can we wade across the river to the other side?”; “Wade the pond”)
  • tittup, swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock – (to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; “He struts around like a rooster in a hen house”)
  • sleepwalk, somnambulate – (walk in one’s sleep)
  • slink – (walk stealthily; “I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey”)
  • limp, gimp, hobble, hitch – (walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; “The old woman hobbles down to the store every day”)
  • shuffle, scuffle, shamble – (walk by dragging one’s feet; “he shuffled out of the room”; “We heard his feet shuffling down the hall”)
  • stroll, saunter – (walk leisurely and with no apparent aim)
  • amble, mosey – (walk leisurely)
  • prowl – (move about in or as if in a predatory manner; “The suspicious stranger prowls the streets of the town”)
  • skulk – (move stealthily; “The lonely man skulks down the main street all day”)
  • toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle – (walk unsteadily; “small children toddle”)
  • promenade – (take a leisurely walk; “The ladies promenaded along the beach”)
  • march – (walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride; “He marched into the classroom and announced the exam”; “The soldiers marched across the border”)
  • stride – (walk with long steps; “He strode confidently across the hall”)
  • hike – (walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; “We were hiking in Colorado”; “hike the Rockies”)
  • slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp – (walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; “Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone”)
  • tiptoe, tip, tippytoe – (walk on one’s toes)
  • stalk – (walk stiffly)
  • flounce – (walk emphatically)
  • stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen – (walk as if unable to control one’s movements; “The drunken man staggered into the room”)
  • stagger, flounder – (walk with great difficulty; “He staggered along in the heavy snow”)
  • stomp, stamp, stump – (walk heavily; “The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots”)
  • lumber, pound – (move heavily or clumsily; “The heavy man lumbered across the room”)
  • pace – (walk with slow or fast paces; “He paced up and down the hall”)
  • tread, trample – (tread or stomp heavily or roughly; “The soldiers trampled across the fields”)
  • slouch – (walk slovenly)
  • mince – (walk daintily; “She minced down the street”)
  • clump, clomp – (walk clumsily)
  • march, process – (march in a procession; “They processed into the dining room”)
  • step – (walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner; “step over to the blackboard”)

Sense 2
prowl, lurch – (loiter about, with no apparent aim)

• loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around – (be about; “The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”; “Who is this man that is hanging around the department?”)
  • prowl, lurch – (loiter about, with no apparent aim)

    exasperate

    3 senses of exasperate

Sense 1
exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate – (exasperate or irritate)

• anger – (make angry; “The news angered him”)
  • combust – (cause to become violent or angry; “Riots combusted Pakistan after the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan”)
  • miff – (cause to be annoyed; “His behavior really miffed me”)
  • gall, irk – (irritate or vex; “It galls me that we lost the suit”)
  • infuriate, exasperate, incense – (make furious)
  • madden – (make mad; “His behavior is maddening”)
  • pique, offend – (cause to feel resentment or indignation; “Her tactless remark offended me”)
  • enrage – (put into a rage; make violently angry)
  • exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate – (exasperate or irritate)

Sense 2
infuriate, exasperate, incense – (make furious)

• anger – (make angry; “The news angered him”)
  • combust – (cause to become violent or angry; “Riots combusted Pakistan after the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan”)
  • miff – (cause to be annoyed; “His behavior really miffed me”)
  • gall, irk – (irritate or vex; “It galls me that we lost the suit”)
  • infuriate, exasperate, incense – (make furious)
  • madden – (make mad; “His behavior is maddening”)
  • pique, offend – (cause to feel resentment or indignation; “Her tactless remark offended me”)
  • enrage – (put into a rage; make violently angry)
  • exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate – (exasperate or irritate)

Sense 3
worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate – (make worse; “This drug aggravates the pain”)

• change, alter, modify – (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; “The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city”; “The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue”)
  • awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse – (cause to become awake or conscious; “He was roused by the drunken men in the street”; “Please wake me at 6 AM.”)
  • cause to sleep – (make fall asleep; “The soft music caused us to fall asleep”)
  • affect – (act physically on; have an effect upon)
  • refresh, freshen, refreshen – (make fresh again)
  • inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise – (introduce semen into (a female))
  • indispose – (cause to feel unwell; “She was indisposed”)
  • cry – (bring into a particular state by crying; “The little boy cried himself to sleep”)
  • etiolate – (make pale or sickly; “alcohol etiolates your skin”)
  • brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise – (make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; “Life in the camps had brutalized him”)
  • convert – (change the nature, purpose, or function of something; “convert lead into gold”; “convert hotels into jails”; “convert slaves to laborers”)
  • opalize, opalise – (make opalescent)
  • arterialize, arterialise – (change venous blood into arterial blood)
  • make, get – (give certain properties to something; “get someone mad”; “She made us look silly”; “He made a fool of himself at the meeting”; “Don’t make this into a big deal”; “This invention will make you a millionaire”; “Make yourself clear”)
  • counterchange, transpose, interchange – (cause to change places; “interchange this screw for one of a smaller size”)
  • vascularize, vascularise – (make vascular; “the yolk sac is gradually vascularized”)
  • decrepitate – (to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; “decrepitate salts”)
  • suburbanize, suburbanise – (make suburban in character; “highly suburbanized cities”)
  • revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn – (change radically; “E-mail revolutionized communication in academe”)
  • etiolate – (bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight)
  • barbarize, barbarise – (make crude or savage in behavior or speech; “his years in prison have barbarized the young man”)
  • alkalinize, alkalinise – (make (a substance) alkaline; “The oxide is alkalized”)
  • mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise – (make into a myth; “The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66”)
  • allegorize, allegorise – (make into an allegory; “The story was allegorized over time”)
  • demythologize, demythologise – (remove the mythical element from (writings); “the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value”)
  • bring, land – (bring into a different state; “this may land you in jail”)
  • coarsen – (make less subtle or refined; “coarsen one’s ideals”)
  • affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch – (have an effect upon; “Will the new rules affect me?”)
  • alchemize, alchemise – (alter (elements) by alchemy)
  • alcoholize, alcoholise – (make alcoholic, as by fermenting; “alcoholize prunes”)
  • shape, form – (give shape or form to; “shape the dough”; “form the young child’s character”)
  • round off, round down, round out, round – (express as a round number; “round off the amount”)
  • suspend – (cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; “suspend the particles”)
  • sober – (cause to become sober; “A sobering thought”)
  • reconstruct – (cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically)
  • increase – (make bigger or more; “The boss finally increased her salary”; “The university increased the number of students it admitted”)
  • ease up, ease off, let up – (reduce pressure or intensity; “he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down”)
  • assimilate – (make similar; “This country assimilates immigrants very quickly”)
  • dissimilate – (make dissimilar; cause to become less similar)
  • commute, convert, exchange – (exchange a penalty for a less severe one)
  • vitalize, vitalise – (give life to; “The eggs are vitalized”)
  • unclutter, clear – (rid of obstructions; “Clear your desk”)
  • activate – (make active or more active; “activate an old file”)
  • activate – (make (substances) radioactive)
  • activate, aerate – (aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter)
  • activate – (make more adsorptive; “activate a metal”)
  • inactivate, deactivate – (make inactive; “they deactivated the file”)
  • deaden, blunt – (make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; “Terror blunted her feelings”; “deaden a sound”)
  • remodel, reconstruct, redo – (do over, as of (part of) a house; “We are remodeling these rooms”)
  • edit, redact – (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; “Edit a book on lexical semantics”; “she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages”)
  • edit, cut, edit out – (cut and assemble the components of; “edit film”; “cut recording tape”)
  • tame, chasten, subdue – (correct by punishment or discipline)
  • chasten, moderate, temper – (restrain or temper)
  • better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate – (to make better; “The editor improved the manuscript with his changes”)
  • worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate – (make worse; “This drug aggravates the pain”)
  • wet – (cause to become wet; “Wet your face”)
  • dry, dry out – (remove the moisture from and make dry; “dry clothes”; “dry hair”)
  • lubricate – (make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant; “lubricate the key”)
  • strengthen, beef up, fortify – (make strong or stronger; “This exercise will strengthen your upper body”; “strengthen the relations between the two countries”)
  • spike, lace, fortify – (add alcohol to (beverages); “the punch is spiked!”)
  • weaken – (lessen the strength of; “The fever weakened his body”)
  • blunt – (make less sharp; “blunt the knives”)
  • oxidize, oxidise, oxidate – (add oxygen to or combine with oxygen)
  • unite, unify, merge – (join or combine; “We merged our resources”)
  • age – (make older; “The death of his child aged him tremendously”)
  • ripen, mature – (cause to ripen or develop fully; “The sun ripens the fruit”; “Age matures a good wine”)
  • antique, antiquate – (give an antique appearance to; “antique furniture”)
  • antiquate – (make obsolete or old-fashioned)
  • develop, make grow – (cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; “The perfect climate here develops the grain”; “He developed a new kind of apple”)
  • soften – (make soft or softer; “This liquid will soften your laundry”)
  • damage – (inflict damage upon; “The snow damaged the roof”; “She damaged the car when she hit the tree”)
  • ossify – (cause to become hard and bony; “The disease ossified the tissue”)
  • acerbate – (make sour or bitter)
  • stabilize, stabilise – (make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium; “The drug stabilized her blood pressure”; “stabilize prices”)
  • destabilize, destabilise – (make unstable; “Terrorism destabilized the government”)
  • sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise – (make sensitive or aware; “He was not sensitized to her emotional needs”)
  • desensitize, desensitise – (make insensitive; “His military training desensitized him”)
  • habituate, accustom – (make psychologically or physically used (to something); “She became habituated to the background music”)
  • disorder, disarray – (bring disorder to)
  • discolor – (cause to lose or change color; “The detergent discolored my shirts”)
  • color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in – (add color to; “The child colored the drawings”; “Fall colored the trees”; “colorize black and white film”)
  • stain – (produce or leave stains; “Red wine stains the table cloth”)
  • hue – (take on color or become colored; “In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey”)
  • uglify – (make ugly)
  • untune – (cause to be out of tune; “Don’t untune that string!”)
  • adjust, set, correct – (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard; “Adjust the clock, please”; “correct the alignment of the front wheels”)
  • set – (put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state; “set the house afire”)
  • disqualify, unfit, indispose – (make unfit or unsuitable; “Your income disqualifies you”)
  • domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame – (overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable; “He tames lions for the circus”; “reclaim falcons”)
  • widen – (make wider; “widen the road”)
  • dehydrogenate – (remove hydrogen from)
  • hydrogenate – (combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound))
  • oxygenize, oxygenise – (change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule))
  • darken – (make dark or darker; “darken a room”)
  • brighten, lighten up, lighten – (make lighter or brighter; “The paint will brighten the room”)
  • blur, blear – (make dim or indistinct; “The drug blurs my vision”)
  • obscure, bedim, overcloud – (make obscure or unclear; “The distinction was obscured”)
  • obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide – (make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; “a hidden message”; “a veiled threat”)
  • cook – (transform by heating; “The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle”)
  • slenderize, slenderise – (make slender or appear to be slender; “slenderizing skirts”)
  • crack – (cause to become cracked; “heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair”)
  • dissolve, dismiss – (declare void; “The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections”)
  • end, terminate – (bring to an end or halt; “She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime”; “The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I”)
  • demist, defog – (free from mist; “demist the car windows”)
  • condense, concentrate, contract – (compress or concentrate; “Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan”)
  • cool, chill, cool down – (make cool or cooler; “Chill the food”)
  • heat, heat up – (make hot or hotter; “the sun heats the oceans”; “heat the water on the stove”)
  • warm – (make warm or warmer; “The blanket will warm you”)
  • boil – (bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; “boil this liquid until it evaporates”)
  • freeze – (cause to freeze; “Freeze the leftover food”)
  • blister – (cause blisters to from on; “the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet”)
  • switch, change over, shift – (make a shift in or exchange of; “First Joe led; then we switched”)
  • transpose – (change key; “Can you transpose this fugue into G major?”)
  • convert, change over – (change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; “We converted from 220 to 110 Volt”)
  • transform – (increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage))
  • transform – (change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species)
  • transform – (convert (one form of energy) to another; “transform energy to light”)
  • transmute – (alter the nature of (elements))
  • transform, transmute, transubstantiate – (change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; “This experience transformed her completely”; “She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture”; “transubstantiate one element into another”)
  • ash – (convert into ashes)
  • translate, transform – (change from one form or medium into another; “Braque translated collage into oil”)
  • reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify – (bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; “The Church reformed me”; “reform your conduct”)
  • convert – (cause to adopt a new or different faith; “The missionaries converted the Indian population”)
  • Islamize, Islamise – (cause to conform to Islamic law; “Islamize the dietary laws”)
  • turn back, invert, reverse – (turn inside out or upside down)
  • invert – (make an inversion (in a musical composition); “here the theme is inverted”)
  • customize, customise – (make according to requirements; “customize a car”)
  • personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise – (make personal or more personal; “personalized service”)
  • depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify – (make impersonal or present as an object; “Will computers depersonalize human interactions?”; “Pornography objectifies women”)
  • sharpen – (raise the pitch of (musical notes))
  • flatten, drop – (lower the pitch of (musical notes))
  • disintegrate – (cause to undergo fission or lose particles)
  • magnetize, magnetise – (make magnetic; “The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings”)
  • demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss – (make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of); “demagnetize the iron shavings”; “they degaussed the ship”)
  • simplify – (make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; “We had to simplify the instructions”; “this move will simplify our lives”)
  • complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate – (make more complex, intricate, or richer; “refine a design or pattern”)
  • refine – (make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; “refine a method of analysis”; “refine the constant in the equation”)
  • complicate, perplex – (make more complicated; “There was a new development that complicated the matter”)
  • supercharge, pressurize, pressurise – (increase the pressure on a gas or liquid)
  • centralize, centralise, concentrate – (make central; “The Russian government centralized the distribution of food”)
  • decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise – (make less central; “After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized”)
  • socialize, socialise – (make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; “Health care should be socialized!”)
  • fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set – (make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; “Get the children ready for school!”; “prepare for war”; “I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill”)
  • internationalize, internationalise – (make international in character; “We internationalized the committee”)
  • communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise – (make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles; “communize the government”)
  • Europeanize, Europeanise – (make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas)
  • Europeanize, Europeanise – (denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations)
  • bestialize, bestialise – (make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to)
  • Americanize, Americanise – (make American in character; “The year in the US has completely Americanized him”)
  • Frenchify – (make French in appearance or character; “let’s Frenchify the restaurant and charge more money”)
  • civilize, civilise – (raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; “The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized”)
  • nationalize, nationalise – (put under state control or ownership; “Mitterand nationalized the banks”)
  • denationalize, denationalise – (put under private control or ownership; “The steel industry was denationalized”)
  • naturalize, naturalise – (make into a citizen; “The French family was naturalized last year”)
  • denaturalize, denaturalise – (strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; “The former Nazi was denaturalized”)
  • naturalize, naturalise – (make more natural or lifelike)
  • denaturalize, denaturalise – (make less natural or unnatural)
  • even, even out – (become even or more even; “even out the surface”)
  • equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate – (make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching; “let’s equalize the duties among all employees in this office”; “The company matched the discount policy of its competitors”)
  • stiffen – (make stiff or stiffer; “Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine”)
  • loosen, loose – (make loose or looser; “loosen the tension on a rope”)
  • tighten, fasten – (make tight or tighter; “Tighten the wire”)
  • transitivize, transitivise – (make transitive; “adding `out’ to many verbs transitivizes them”)
  • detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise – (intransitivize; “removing the object will intransitivize the verbs”)
  • thicken, inspissate – (make thick or thicker; “Thicken the sauce”; “inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch”)
  • full – (make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering)
  • diversify – (make (more) diverse; “diversify a course of study”)
  • deaden – (make vapid or deprive of spirit; “deadened wine”)
  • check, retard, delay – (slow the growth or development of; “The brain damage will retard the child’s language development”)
  • decrease, lessen, minify – (make smaller; “He decreased his staff”)
  • liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise – (make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; “liquefy the silver”)
  • solvate – (cause a solvation in (a substance))
  • dissolve – (cause to fade away; “dissolve a shot or a picture”)
  • validate – (make valid or confirm the validity of; “validate a ticket”)
  • invalidate, void, vitiate – (take away the legal force of or render ineffective; “invalidate a contract”)
  • empty – (make void or empty of contents; “Empty the box”; “The alarm emptied the building”)
  • fill, fill up, make full – (make full, also in a metaphorical sense; “fill a container”; “fill the child with pride”)
  • saturate – (cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance)
  • clot, coagulate – (cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state)
  • louden – (cause to become loud)
  • normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise – (make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard; “normalize relations with China”; “normalize the temperature”; “normalize the spelling”)
  • morph – (cause to change shape in a computer animation; “The computer programmer morphed the image”)
  • neutralize, neutralise – (make chemically neutral; “She neutralized the solution”)
  • commercialize, commercialise, market – (make commercial; “Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life”)
  • purify, purge, sanctify – (make pure or free from sin or guilt; “he left the monastery purified”)
  • mechanize, mechanise – (make mechanical; “mechanize the procedure”)
  • automatize, automatise, automate – (make automatic or control or operate automatically; “automatize the production”; “automate the movement of the robot”)
  • automatize, automatise – (turn into an automaton)
  • mechanize, mechanise – (make monotonous; make automatic or routine; “If your work becomes too mechanized, change jobs!”)
  • harmonize, harmonise, chord – (bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing)
  • polarize, polarise – (cause to vibrate in a definite pattern; “polarize light waves”)
  • glorify – (bestow glory upon; “The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic”)
  • contaminate – (make radioactive by adding radioactive material; “Don’t drink the water–it’s contaminated”)
  • devalue – (lower the value or quality of; “The tear devalues the painting”)
  • insulate – (protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; “We had his bedroom insulated before winter came”)
  • calcify – (convert into lime; “the salts calcified the rock”)
  • urbanize, urbanise – (make more industrial or city-like; “The area was urbanized after many people moved in”)
  • urbanize, urbanise – (impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon; “Birds are being urbanized by people in outdoor cafes feeding them”)
  • emulsify – (cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion)
  • demulsify – (cause to demulsify)
  • decarboxylate – (remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound))
  • nazify – (cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character; “Hitler nazified Germany in the 1930’s”; “The arts were nazified everywhere in Germany”)
  • fertilize, fecundate, fertilise – (make fertile or productive; “The course fertilized her imagination”)
  • clarify – (make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; “clarify the butter”; “clarify beer”)
  • embrittle – (make brittle)
  • mark – (make or leave a mark on; “the scouts marked the trail”; “ash marked the believers’ foreheads”)
  • barb – (provide with barbs; “barbed wire”)
  • nick – (divide or reset the tail muscles of; “nick horses”)
  • disable, disenable, incapacitate – (make unable to perform a certain action; “disable this command on your computer”)
  • enable – (render capable or able for some task; “This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street”; “The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain”)
  • de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress – (reduce the emphasis)
  • tender, tenderize, tenderise – (make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; “tenderize meat”)
  • charge – (cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on; “charge a conductor”)
  • sweeten – (make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; “sweeten a deal”)
  • iodinate – (cause to combine with iodine; “iodinate thyroxine”)
  • ionate – (add ions to)
  • archaize, archaise – (give an archaic appearance of character to; “archaized craftwork”)
  • inform – (give character or essence to; “The principles that inform modern teaching”)
  • officialize, officialise – (make official; “We officialized our relationship”)
  • occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise – (make western in character; “The country was Westernized after it opened up”)
  • orientalize, orientalise – (make oriental in character; “orientalize your garden”)
  • acetylate, acetylize, acetylise – (introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound))
  • achromatize, achromatise – (remove color from; “achromatize the lenses”)
  • parallel, collimate – (make or place parallel to something; “They paralleled the ditch to the highway”)
  • camp – (give an artificially banal or sexual quality to)
  • classicize, classicise – (make classic or classical)
  • conventionalize, conventionalise – (make conventional or adapt to conventions; “conventionalized behavior”)
  • decimalize, decimalise – (change from fractions to decimals; “Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000”)
  • dizzy – (make dizzy or giddy; “a dizzying pace”)
  • poison, envenom – (add poison to; “Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her”)
  • exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify – (make external or objective, or give reality to; “language externalizes our thoughts”)
  • glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise – (make glamorous and attractive; “This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!”)
  • introvert – (turn inside; “He introverted his feelings”)
  • laicize, laicise – (reduce to lay status; “laicize the parochial schools”)
  • politicize, politicise – (give a political character to; “politicize the discussion”)
  • radicalize – (make more radical in social or political outlook; “Her work in the developing world radicalized her”)
  • proof – (activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk; “proof yeast”)
  • romanticize, romanticise – (make romantic in style; “The designer romanticized the little black dress”)
  • rusticate – (lend a rustic character to; “rusticate the house in the country”)
  • sauce – (add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; “sauce the roast”)
  • shallow, shoal – (make shallow; “The silt shallowed the canal”)
  • tense – (increase the tension on; “alternately relax and tense your calf muscle”; “tense the rope manually before tensing the spring”)
  • steepen – (make steeper; “The landslides have steepened the mountain sides”)
  • scramble – (make unintelligible; “scramble the message so that nobody can understand it”)
  • unscramble – (make intelligible; “Can you unscramble the message?”)
  • unsex – (remove the qualities typical of one’s sex; “She unsexed herself”)
  • vitrify – (change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat)
  • pall – (cause to become flat; “pall the beer”)
  • saponify – (convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali; “saponify oils and fats”)
  • extend, expand – (expand the influence of; “The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent”)
  • suspend, set aside – (make inoperative or stop; “suspend payments on the loan”)
  • muddy – (make turbid; “muddy the water”)
  • transform – (subject to a mathematical transformation)
  • lift, raise, elevate – (raise in rank or condition; “The new law lifted many people from poverty”)
  • harshen – (make harsh or harsher; “Winter harshened the look of the city”)
  • dinge – (make dingy)
  • demonize, demonise – (make into a demon; “Power had demonized him”)
  • devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise – (turn into a devil or make devilish; “Man devilized by war”)
  • etherealize, etherialise – (make ethereal)
  • immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise – (render immaterial or incorporeal)
  • animize, animise, animate – (give lifelike qualities to; “animated cartoons”)
  • clear – (make clear, bright, light, or translucent; “The water had to be cleared through filtering”)
  • dynamize, dynamise – (make (a drug) effective; “dynamized medicine”)
  • dynamize, dynamise – (make more dynamic; “She was dynamized by her desire to go to grad school”)
  • rarefy, sublimate, subtilize – (make more subtle or refined)
  • volatilize, volatilise – (make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor)
  • uniformize, uniformise – (make uniform; “the data have been uniformized”)
  • symmetrize, symmetrise – (make symmetric; “symmetrized waves”)
  • immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise – (make famous forever; “This melody immortalized its composer”)
  • denature – (make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes)
  • denature – (modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished)
  • denature – (add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb)
  • sanitize, sanitise – (make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features; “sanitize a document before releasing it to the press”; “sanitize history”; “sanitize the language in a book”)
  • verbify – (make into a verb; “‘mouse’ has been verbified by computer users”)
  • shift – (move from one setting or context to another; “shift the emphasis”; “shift one’s attention”)
  • sputter – (cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; “The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust”)
  • draw – (bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition; “She was drawn to despair”; “The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum”; “The session was drawn to a close”)
  • make – (change from one form into another; “make water into wine”; “make lead into gold”; “make clay into bricks”)
  • dope – (add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties; “The resistors have been doped”)
  • prostrate – (render helpless or defenseless; “They prostrated the enemy”)
  • excite – (produce a magnetic field in; “excite the neurons”)
  • excite, energize, energise – (raise to a higher energy level; “excite the atoms”)
  • shake – (bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking; “He was shaken from his dreams”; “shake the salt out of the salt shaker”)
  • outmode – (make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete; “Modern ways of cooking have outmoded the hearth”)
  • spice, spice up – (make more interesting or flavorful; “Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer”)
  • shorten – (make short or shorter; “shorten the skirt”; “shorten the rope by a few inches”)
  • think – (bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; “She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam”)
  • make – (cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; “make my day”)
  • deflate – (produce deflation in; “The new measures deflated the economy”)
  • inflate – (cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit; “The war inflated the economy”)
  • reflate – (economics: raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation; “These measures reflated the economy”)
  • digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise – (put into digital form, as for use in a computer; “he bought a device to digitize the data”)
  • gelatinize, gelatinise – (convert into gelatinous form or jelly; “hot water will gelatinize starch”)
  • recombine – (cause genetic recombination; “should scientists recombine DNA?”)
  • feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize – (to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; “This hairdo feminizes the man”)
  • masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise – (produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy; “the drugs masculinized the teenage girl”)
  • masculinize – (give a masculine appearance or character to; “Fashion designers have masculinized women’s looks in the 1990s”)
  • disharmonize, dissonate – (cause to sound harsh and unpleasant)
  • sexualize, sexualise – (make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to; “The god was sexualized and married to another god”; “Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender”)
  • schematize, schematise – (give conventional form to; “some art forms schematise designs into geometrical patterns”)
  • patent – (make open to sight or notice; “His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him”)
  • constitutionalize, constitutionalise – (incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional; “A woman’s right to an abortion was constitutionalized in the 1970’s”)
  • rationalize, rationalise – (remove irrational quantities from; “This function can be rationalized”)
  • plasticize, plasticise – (make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer; “plasticized PVC”)
  • rarefy – (lessen the density or solidity of; “The bones are rarefied”)
  • paganize, paganise – (make pagan in character; “The Church paganized Christianity”)
  • incandesce – (cause to become incandescent or glow; “the lamp was incandesced”)
  • deaminate, deaminize – (remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination)
  • angulate – (make or become angular)
  • circularize – (make circular)
  • sensitize, sensitise – (make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion; “sensitize the photographic film”)
  • sensitize, sensitise – (make sensitive to a drug or allergen; “Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen”)
  • depolarize, depolarise – (eliminate the polarization of)
  • intensify – (make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark)
  • isomerize, isomerise – (cause to change into an isomer)
  • legitimate – (make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); “They legitimized their natural child”)
  • evaporate, vaporise – (cause to change into a vapor; “The chemist evaporated the water”)
  • industrialize, industrialise – (organize the production of into an industry; “The Chinese industrialized textile production”)
  • opacify – (make opaque; “The glass was opacified more greater privacy”)
  • opsonize – (make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes)
  • militarize, militarise – (adopt for military use; “militarize the Civil Service”)
  • nationalize, nationalise – (make national in character or scope; “His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press”)
  • recommend – (make attractive or acceptable; “Honesty recommends any person”)
  • sentimentalize, sentimentalise – (make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities; “Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind”; “These experiences have sentimentalized her”)
  • solemnize, solemnise – (make solemn and grave; “This ceremony solemnized our hearts”)
  • territorialize, territorialise – (place on a territorial basis; “The railways were territorialized”)
  • transaminate – (change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another)
  • transfigure, glorify, spiritualize – (elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ’s transfiguration)
  • unsanctify – (remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified)
  • vesiculate – (cause to become vesicular or full of air cells; “vesiculate an organ”)
  • visualize, visualise – (make visible; “With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized”)
  • variegate – (change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors)
  • ventilate – (furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape; “The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space”)
  • vivify – (make more striking or animated; “his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story”)
  • vulgarise, vulgarize – (debase and make vulgar; “The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage”)
  • supple – (make pliant and flexible; “These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use”)
  • professionalize, professionalise – (make professional or give a professional character to; “Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs”)
  • smut – (make obscene; “This line in the play smuts the entire act”)
  • still – (make motionless)
  • weaponize – (make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon; “Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?”)
  • eroticize, sex up – (give erotic or sexy character to; “eroticize the ads”)
  • piggyback – (bring into alignment with; “an amendment to piggyback the current law”)
  • confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate – (make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; “Her remarks confused the debate”; “Their words obnubilate their intentions”)
  • confuse – (make unclear or incomprehensible; “The new tax return forms only confuse”)
  • tone down, moderate, tame – (make less strong or intense; soften; “Tone down that aggressive letter”; “The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements”)
  • obfuscate – (make obscure or unclear)
  • synchronize, synchronise – (make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action; “synchronize this film”)
  • mince, soften, moderate – (make less severe or harsh; “He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears”)
  • militarize, militarise – (lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force; “militarize Germany again after the war”)
  • break down, crush – (make ineffective; “Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination”)
  • fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up – (make fat or plump; “We will plump out that poor starving child”)
  • touch, disturb – (tamper with; “Don’t touch my CDs!”)
  • dull – (make dull in appearance; “Age had dulled the surface”)
  • dull, blunt – (make dull or blunt; “Too much cutting dulls the knife’s edge”)
  • sharpen – (make sharp or sharper; “sharpen the knives”)
  • coarsen – (make or become coarse or coarser; “coarsen the surface”; “Their minds coarsened”)
  • loosen – (make less dense; “loosen the soil”)
  • untie, undo, loosen – (cause to become loose; “undo the shoelace”; “untie the knot”; “loosen the necktie”)
  • barb – (provide with barbs; “barbed wire”)
  • string – (provide with strings; “string my guitar”)
  • straighten, straighten out – (make straight)
  • bring – (cause to come into a particular state or condition; “Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence”; “bring water to the boiling point”)
  • mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate – (to bring or combine together or with something else; “resourcefully he mingled music and dance”)
  • charge – (fill or load to capacity; “charge the wagon with hay”)
  • put – (cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; “That song put me in awful good humor”)
  • clean, make clean – (make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; “Clean the stove!”; “The dentist cleaned my teeth”)
  • dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire – (make soiled, filthy, or dirty; “don’t soil your clothes when you play outside!”)
  • lower, depress – (cause to drop or sink; “The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir”)
  • deform – (make formless; “the heat deformed the plastic sculpture”)
  • break, break up – (destroy the completeness of a set of related items; “The book dealer would not break the set”)
  • alter – (make an alteration to; “This dress needs to be altered”)
  • decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify – (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; “Decorate the room for the party”; “beautify yourself for the special day”)
  • humanize, humanise – (make more humane; “The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city”)
  • humble – (cause to be unpretentious; “This experience will humble him”)
  • estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect – (arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness; “She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious”)
  • right – (put in or restore to an upright position; “They righted the sailboat that had capsized”)
  • desensitize, desensitise – (cause not to be sensitive; “The war desensitized many soldiers”; “The photographic plate was desensitized”)
  • deodorize, deodorise, deodourise – (eliminate the odor from; “This stick will deodorize your armpits”)
  • develop – (make visible by means of chemical solutions; “Please develop this roll of film for me”)
  • blur – (to make less distinct or clear; “The haze blurs the hills”)
  • blind – (make blind by putting the eyes out; “The criminals were punished and blinded”)
  • change intensity – (increase or decrease in intensity)
  • change taste – (alter the flavor of)
  • capture – (bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit; “This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons”; “The star captured a comet”)
  • lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring – (bestow a quality on; “Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company”; “The music added a lot to the play”; “She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings”; “This adds a light note to the program”)
  • restore, reinstate, reestablish – (bring back into original existence, use, function, or position; “restore law and order”; “reestablish peace in the region”; “restore the emperor to the throne”)
  • liberalize, liberalise – (make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules)
  • right, compensate, redress, correct – (make reparations or amends for; “right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust”)
  • democratize, democratise – (introduce democratic reforms; of nations)
  • neutralize – (make politically neutral and thus inoffensive; “The treaty neutralized the small republic”)
  • corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect – (corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; “debauch the young people with wine and women”; “Socrates was accused of corrupting young men”; “Do school counselors subvert young children?”; “corrupt the morals”)
  • relax, loosen – (make less severe or strict; “The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught”)
  • unite, unify – (bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation; “the Democratic Patry platform united several splinter groups”)
  • flocculate – (cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; “The chemist flocculated the suspended material”)
  • turn – (cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics; “The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him”; “The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold”)
  • make possible – (make accessible; “This answer opens the door to new objections”)
  • cohere – (cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole; “Religion can cohere social groups”)

    animus

1 sense of animus

Sense 1
animosity, animus, bad blood – (a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility)

• hostility, enmity, ill will – (the feeling of a hostile person; “he could no longer contain his hostility”)
  • animosity, animus, bad blood – (a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility)
  • class feeling – (feelings of envy and resentment of one social or economic class for toward another)
  • antagonism – (an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility)
  • aggression, aggressiveness – (a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack)
  • belligerence, belligerency – (hostile or warlike attitude or nature)
  • resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour – (a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will)

epilogue

2 senses of epilogue

Sense 1
epilogue, epilog – (a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play)

• conclusion, end, close, closing, ending – (the last section of a communication; “in conclusion I want to say…”)
  • anticlimax, bathos – (a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one)
  • epilogue, epilog – (a short passage added at the end of a literary work; “the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters”)
  • epilogue, epilog – (a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play)
  • peroration – ((rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; “he summarized his main points in his peroration”)
  • finale, coda – (the closing section of a musical composition)

Sense 2
epilogue, epilog – (a short passage added at the end of a literary work; “the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters”)

• conclusion, end, close, closing, ending – (the last section of a communication; “in conclusion I want to say…”)
  • anticlimax, bathos – (a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one)
  • epilogue, epilog – (a short passage added at the end of a literary work; “the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters”)
  • epilogue, epilog – (a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play)
  • peroration – ((rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; “he summarized his main points in his peroration”)
  • finale, coda – (the closing section of a musical composition)

iridescent

2 senses of iridescent

Sense 1
changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot – (varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles; “changeable taffeta”; “chatoyant (or shot) silk”; “a dragonfly hovered, vibrating and iridescent”)
RELATED TO->(noun) iridescence#1

- opalescence, iridescence -- (the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface)
RELATED TO->(verb) iridesce#1
- iridesce -- (be iridescent; "The corals iridesced under the surface of the clear water")
INDIRECT (VIA colorful) -> colorless, colourless -- (weak in color; not colorful)

Sense 2
iridescent, nacreous, opalescent, opaline, pearlescent – (having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors; “an iridescent oil slick”; “nacreous (or pearlescent) clouds looking like mother-of-pearl”; “a milky opalescent (or opaline) luster”)
RELATED TO->(noun) iridescence#1

 - opalescence, iridescence -- (the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface)
RELATED TO->(verb) iridesce#1
 - iridesce -- (be iridescent; "The corals iridesced under the surface of the clear water")
 INDIRECT (VIA bright) -> dull -- (emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky")

surfeit

3 senses of surfeit

Sense 1
surfeit, excess, overabundance – (the state of being more than full)

• fullness – (the condition of being filled to capacity)
  • repletion, satiety, satiation – (the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more)
  • surfeit, excess, overabundance – (the state of being more than full)
  • solidity – (state of having the interior filled with matter)
  • infestation – (the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites)

Sense 2
glut, oversupply, surfeit – (the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall)

• overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance – (a quantity that is more than what is appropriate; “four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy”; “we received an inundation of email”)
  • excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety – (a quantity much larger than is needed)
  • glut, oversupply, surfeit – (the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall)
  • bellyful – (an undesirable overabundance; “a bellyful of your complaints”)

Sense 3
repletion, surfeit – (eating until excessively full)

• eating, feeding – (the act of consuming food)
  • mycophagy – (the practice of eating fungi (especially mushrooms collected in the wild))
  • bite, chomp – (the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws)
  • browse, browsing – (the act of feeding by continual nibbling)
  • coprophagy, coprophagia – (eating feces; in human a symptom of some kinds of insanity)
  • dining – (the act of eating dinner)
  • engorgement – (eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation)
  • feasting, banqueting – (eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment))
  • geophagy, geophagia, pica – (eating earth or clay or chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes or sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency)
  • graze, grazing – (the act of grazing)
  • lunching – (the act of eating lunch)
  • repletion, surfeit – (eating until excessively full)
  • supping – (ingestion of liquid food with a spoon or by drinking)
  • tasting, savoring, savouring, relishing, degustation – (taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality; “cooking was fine but it was the savoring that he enjoyed most”)
  • necrophagia, necrophagy – (feeding on corpses or carrion)
  • omophagia – (the eating of raw food)
  • scatophagy – (the eating of excrement or other filth)

2 senses of surfeit

Sense 1
surfeit, cloy – (supply or feed to surfeit)

• supply, provide, render, furnish – (provide or furnish with; “We provided the room with an electrical heater”)
  • hydrate – (supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance; “the bicyclists must be hydrated frequently”)
  • charge – (energize a battery by passing a current through it in the direction opposite to discharge; “I need to charge my car battery”)
  • date – (provide with a dateline; mark with a date; “She wrote the letter on Monday but she dated it Saturday so as not to reveal that she procrastinated”)
  • feed – (feed into; supply; “Her success feeds her vanity”)
  • calk – (provide with calks; “calk horse shoes”)
  • fund – (provide a fund for the redemption of principal or payment of interest)
  • stint, skimp, scant – (supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; “sting with the allowance”)
  • terrace, terrasse – (provide (a house) with a terrace; “We terrassed the country house”)
  • dado – (provide with a dado; “The owners wanted to dado their dining room”)
  • innervate – (supply nerves to (some organ or body part))
  • offer – (make available or accessible, provide or furnish; “The conference center offers a health spa”; “The hotel offers private meeting rooms”)
  • signalize, signalise – (provide with traffic signals; “signalize a busy intersection”)
  • extend, offer – (make available; provide; “extend a loan”; “The bank offers a good deal on new mortgages”)
  • stock – (provide or furnish with a stock of something; “stock the larder with meat”)
  • stock, buy in – (stock up on to keep for future use or sale; “let’s stock coffee as long as prices are low”)
  • caption – (provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing)
  • tube – (provide with a tube or insert a tube into)
  • ticket – (provide with a ticket for passage or admission; “Ticketed passengers can board now”)
  • stock – (supply with livestock; “stock a farm”)
  • stock – (supply with fish; “stock a lake”)
  • rim – (furnish with a rim; “rim a hat”)
  • fret – (provide (a musical instrument) with frets; “fret a guitar”)
  • step – (furnish with steps; “The architect wants to step the terrace”)
  • rail – (provide with rails; “The yard was railed”)
  • grate – (furnish with a grate; “a grated fireplace”)
  • capitalize, capitalise – (supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders)
  • alphabetize – (provide with an alphabet; “Cyril and Method alphabetized the Slavic languages”)
  • wharf – (provide with a wharf; “Wharf the mouth of the river”)
  • air-cool, air-condition – (equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature; “Our house is not air-conditioned”)
  • uniform – (provide with uniforms; “The guards were uniformed”)
  • railroad – (supply with railroad lines; “railroad the West”)
  • partner – (provide with a partner)
  • bewhisker, whisker – (furnish with whiskers; “a whiskered jersey”)
  • subtitle – (supply (a movie) with subtitles)
  • headline – (provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline)
  • match – (provide funds complementary to; “The company matched the employees’ contributions”)
  • hobnail – (supply with hobnails)
  • wive – (provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife)
  • victual – (supply with food; “The population was victualed during the war”)
  • surfeit, cloy – (supply or feed to surfeit)
  • heat – (provide with heat; “heat the house”)
  • seat – (provide with seats; “seat a concert hall”)
  • seat – (put a seat on a chair)
  • ramp – (furnish with a ramp; “The ramped auditorium”)
  • arm – (supply with arms; “The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan”)
  • interleave – (provide (books) with blank leaves)
  • glass, glaze – (furnish with glass; “glass the windows”)
  • crenel, crenelate, crenellate – (supply with battlements)
  • causeway – (provide with a causeway; “A causewayed swamp”)
  • canal, canalize, canalise – (provide (a city) with a canal)
  • bush – (provide with a bushing)
  • brattice – (supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines)
  • furnish – (provide or equip with furniture; “We furnished the house in the Biedermeyer style”)
  • slat – (equip or bar with slats; “Slat the windows”)
  • berth – (provide with a berth)
  • bed – (furnish with a bed; “The inn keeper could bed all the new arrivals”)
  • computerize, computerise – (provide with computers; “Our office is fully computerized now”)
  • costume – (furnish with costumes; as for a film or play)
  • bottom – (provide with a bottom or a seat; “bottom the chairs”)
  • rafter – (provide (a ceiling) with rafters)
  • tool – (furnish with tools)
  • key – (provide with a key; “We were keyed after the locks were changed in the building”)
  • fuel – (provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; “fuel aircraft, ships, and cars”)
  • provision, purvey – (supply with provisions)
  • yield, give, afford – (be the cause or source of; “He gave me a lot of trouble”; “Our meeting afforded much interesting information”)
  • equip, fit, fit out, outfit – (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; “The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities”)
  • transistorize, transistorise – (equip (an electronic circuit or device) with transistors)
  • upholster – (provide furniture with padding, springs, webbing, and covers)
  • cleat – (provide with cleats; “cleat running shoes for better traction”)
  • coal – (supply with coal)
  • corbel – (furnish with a corbel)
  • cornice – (furnish with a cornice)
  • constitutionalize – (provide with a constitution, as of a country; “The United States were constitutionalized in the late 18th century”)
  • copper-bottom – (provide with a copper bottom; “copper-bottom a frying pan”)
  • curtain – (provide with drapery; “curtain the bedrooms”)
  • gate – (supply with a gate; “The house was gated”)
  • index – (provide with an index; “index the book”)
  • joint, articulate – (provide with a joint; “the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood”)
  • pour – (supply in large amounts or quantities; “We poured money into the education of our children”)
  • pump – (supply in great quantities; “Pump money into a project”)
  • fuel, fire – (provide with fuel; “Oil fires the furnace”)
  • flood, oversupply, glut – (supply with an excess of; “flood the market with tennis shoes”; “Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient”)
  • toggle – (provide with a toggle or toggles)
  • patch – (provide with a patch; also used metaphorically; “The field was patched with snow”)
  • water – (provide with water; “We watered the buffalo”)
  • leverage – (provide with leverage; “We need to leverage this company”)
  • tap – (furnish with a tap or spout, so as to be able to draw liquid from it; “tap a cask of wine”)
  • top – (provide with a top; “the towers were topped with conical roofs”)
  • reflectorize, reflectorise – (provide with reflectors, such as chemicals; “the driveway was reflectorized for safety reasons”)
  • retrofit – (provide with parts, devices, or equipment not available or in use at the time of the original manufacture; “They car companies retrofitted all the old models with new carburetors”)
  • border, edge – (provide with a border or edge; “edge the tablecloth with embroidery”)
  • machicolate – (supply with projecting galleries; “machicolate the castle walls”)
  • sanitate – (provide with sanitary facilities or appliances)
  • hat – (furnish with a hat)
  • theme – (provide with a particular theme or motive; “the restaurant often themes its menus”)
  • kern – (furnish with a kern)
  • shelter – (provide shelter for; “After the earthquake, the government could not provide shelter for the thousands of homeless people”)

Sense 2
surfeit – (indulge (one’s appetite) to satiety)

• indulge, luxuriate – (enjoy to excess; “She indulges in ice cream”)
  • surfeit – (indulge (one’s appetite) to satiety)

glutton

2 senses of glutton

Sense 1
glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman – (a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess)

• eater, feeder – (someone who consumes food for nourishment)
  • devourer – (someone who eats greedily or voraciously)
  • omnivore – (a person who eats all kinds of foods)
  • diner – (a person eating a meal (especially in a restaurant))
  • dunker – (an eater who dips food into a liquid before eating it; “he was a dunker–he couldn’t eat a doughnut without a cup of coffee to dunk it in”)
  • glutton, gourmand, gourmandizer, trencherman – (a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess)
  • gobbler – (a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls)
  • luncher – (someone who is eating lunch)
  • mouth – (a person conceived as a consumer of food; “he has four mouths to feed”)
  • mycophagist, micophage – (a person or animal who eats fungi (especially mushrooms))
  • nosher, snacker – (someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals)
  • picnicker, picknicker – (a person who is picnicking)
  • scoffer, gorger – (someone who eats food rapidly and greedily)
  • vegetarian – (eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products)
    Sense 2
    glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine – (musteline mammal of northern Eurasia)
• musteline mammal, mustelid, musteline – (fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals)
  • weasel – (small carnivorous mammal with short legs and elongated body and neck)
  • mink – (slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur)
  • polecat, fitch, foulmart, foumart, Mustela putorius – (dark brown mustelid of woodlands of Eurasia that gives off an unpleasant odor when threatened)
  • black-footed ferret, ferret, Mustela nigripes – (musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct)
  • otter – (freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur)
  • sea otter, Enhydra lutris – (large marine otter of northern Pacific coasts having very thick dark brown fur)
  • skunk, polecat, wood pussy – (American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae)
  • badger – (sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws widely distributed in the northern hemisphere)
  • ratel, honey badger, Mellivora capensis – (nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia)
  • wolverine, carcajou, skunk bear, Gulo luscus – (stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal)
  • glutton, Gulo gulo, wolverine – (musteline mammal of northern Eurasia)
  • grison, Grison vittatus, Galictis vittatus – (carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts)
  • marten, marten cat – (agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels)
  • tayra, taira, Eira barbara – (long-tailed arboreal mustelid of Central America and South America)

    abjure

1 sense of abjure

Sense 1
abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile – (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; “He retracted his earlier statements about his religion”; “She abjured her beliefs”)

• renounce, repudiate – (cast off or disown; “She renounced her husband”; “The parents repudiated their son”)
  • apostatize, apostatise, tergiversate – (abandon one’s beliefs or allegiances)
  • abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile – (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; “He retracted his earlier statements about his religion”; “She abjured her beliefs”)
  • swallow, take back, unsay, withdraw – (take back what one has said; “He swallowed his words”)
  • refute, rebut – (overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; “The speaker refuted his opponent’s arguments”)
  • deny – (refuse to accept or believe; “He denied his fatal illness”)

corroborate

2 of 3 senses of corroborate

Sense 2
validate, corroborate – (give evidence for)

• confirm, reassert – (strengthen or make more firm; “The witnesses confirmed the victim’s account”)
  • uphold, maintain – (support against an opponent; “The appellate court upheld the verdict”)
  • justify, warrant – (show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; “The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns”; “The end justifies the means”)
  • verify – (attach or append a legal verification to (a pleading or petition))
  • validate, corroborate – (give evidence for)
  • reconfirm – (confirm again; “You must reconfirm your flight reservations”)

Sense 3
corroborate, underpin, bear out, support – (support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; “The stories and claims were born out by the evidence”)

• match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree – (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; “The two stories don’t agree in many details”; “The handwriting checks with the signature on the check”; “The suspect’s fingerprints don’t match those on the gun”)
  • consist – (be consistent in form, tenor, or character; be congruous; “Desires are to be satisfied only so far as consists with an approved end”)
  • look – (accord in appearance with; “You don’t look your age!”)
  • answer – (match or correspond; “The drawing of the suspect answers to the description the victim gave”)
  • coincide – (be the same; “our views on this matter coincided”)
  • align – (align with; be or come into adjustment)
  • correlate – (to bear a reciprocal or mutual relation; “Do these facts correlate?”)
  • parallel – (be parallel to; “Their roles are paralleled by ours”)
  • twin, duplicate, parallel – (duplicate or match; “The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse”)
  • square – (be compatible with; “one idea squares with another”)
  • corroborate, underpin, bear out, support – (support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; “The stories and claims were born out by the evidence”)
  • resemble – (appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to; “She resembles her mother very much”; “This paper resembles my own work”)
  • meet, fit, conform to – (satisfy a condition or restriction; “Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?”)
  • homologize – (be homologous; “A person’s arms homologize with a quadruped’s forelimbs”)
  • befit, suit, beseem – (accord or comport with; “This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!”)
  • harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree – (go together; “The colors don’t harmonize”; “Their ideas concorded”)
  • pattern – (form a pattern; “These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before”)
  • adhere – (be compatible or in accordance with; “You must adhere to the rules”)
  • rhyme, rime – (be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable; “hat and cat rhyme”)

niblle

2 senses of nibble

Sense 1
nybble, nibble – (a small byte)

• computer memory unit – (a unit for measuring computer memory)
  • nybble, nibble – (a small byte)
  • byte – (a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information)
  • sector – (the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes)
  • block – ((computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted; “since blocks are often defined as a single sector, the terms block' andsector’ are sometimes used interchangeably”)
  • allocation unit – (a group of sectors on a magnetic disk that can be reserved for the use of a particular file)
  • partition – ((computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit)
  • word – (a word is a string of bits stored in computer memory; “large computers use words up to 64 bits long”)
  • kilobyte, K, KB – (a unit of information equal to one thousand (1024) bytes)
  • megabyte, MB – (a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes)
  • gigabyte, G, GB – (a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes)
  • terabyte, T, TB – (a unit of information equal to a trillion (1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 1024 gigabytes)
  • petabyte – (a unit of information equal to 1,024 terabytes)

Sense 2
nibble – (gentle biting)

• bite, chomp – (the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws)
  • munch – (a large bite; “he tried to talk between munches on the sandwich”)
  • nibble – (gentle biting)
  • nip, pinch – (a small sharp bite or snip)

inception

1 sense of inception

Sense 1
origin, origination, inception – (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events)

• beginning – (the event consisting of the start of something; “the beginning of the war”)
  • casus belli – (an event used to justify starting a war)
  • emergence, egress, issue – (the becoming visible; “not a day’s difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins”)
  • origin, origination, inception – (an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events)
  • genesis, generation – (a coming into being)
  • ground floor – (becoming part of a venture at the beginning (regarded as position of advantage); “he got in on the ground floor”)
  • emergence, outgrowth, growth – (the gradual beginning or coming forth; “figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece”)
  • start – (the beginning of anything; “it was off to a good start”)
  • creation, conception – (the event that occurred at the beginning of something; “from its creation the plan was doomed to failure”)

morphs

accele

accelerando
accelerate
accelerated
acceleration
acceleration unit
accelerative
accelerator
accelerator factor
accelerator pedal
acceleratory
accelerometer
angular acceleration
centripetal acceleration
charge-exchange accelerator
cockcroft-walton accelerator
cockcroft and walton accelerator
electron accelerator
induction accelerator
linear accelerator
microwave linear accelerator
particle accelerator
proaccelerin
prothrombin accelerator
proton accelerator

commit

blue ribbon committee
citizens committee
commit
commit suicide
commitment
committal
committal service
committal to memory
committal to writing
committed
committedness
committee
committee for state security
committee meeting
committee member
committeeman
committeewoman
ethics committee
finance committee
international olympic committee
noncommittal
political action committee
recommit
security intelligence review committee
select committee
standing committee
steering committee
subcommittee
uncommitted
vigilance committee
ways and means committee
welcoming committee

salv

el salvador
el salvadoran colon
el salvadoran monetary unit
family salvadoraceae
family salviniaceae
genus salvadora
genus salvelinus
genus salvia
genus salvinia
mentholated salve
republic of el salvador
salvador
salvador dali
salvadora
salvadora family
salvadora persica
salvadoraceae
salvadoran
salvadoran capital
salvadorean
salvadorian
salvage
salvageable
salvager
salvation
salvation army
salve
salvelinus
salvelinus alpinus
salvelinus fontinalis
salvelinus namaycush
salver
salverform
salvia
salvia azurea
salvia clarea
salvia divinorum
salvia farinacea
salvia lancifolia
salvia leucophylla
salvia lyrata
salvia officinalis
salvia pratensis
salvia reflexa
salvia sclarea
salvia spathacea
salvia verbenaca
salvific
salving
salvinia
salvinia auriculata
salvinia rotundifolia
salviniaceae
salvinorin
salvo
salvor
san salvador

euver

airplane maneuver
flight maneuver
heimlich maneuver
heimlich manoeuvere
maneuver
maneuverability
maneuverable
maneuverer
manoeuver
outmaneuver
tactical maneuver

voke

convoke
evoke
evoked
evoked potential
invoke
provoke
provoked
provoker
revoke
unprovoked

apoc

apocalypse
apocalyptic
apocalyptical
apocarpous
apochromatic
apocope
apocrine
apocrine gland
apocrypha
apocryphal
apocynaceae
apocynaceous
apocynum
apocynum androsaemifolium
apocynum cannabinum
apocynum pumilum
family apocynaceae
genus apocynum