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v. ebb
(a) impose a fine on
(b) charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; calumniate; smear; sully; besmirch
(c) talk socially without exchanging too much information; shoot the breeze; chat; confabulate; confab
(d) fall away or decline
 
v. fetter
(a) be a mystery or bewildering to; stick; get
(b) use up (resources or materials); use up; eat
(c) chain; shackle
(d) give an incentive for action; propel; move; prompt; incite
 
v. dilute
(a) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
(b) annoy continually or chronically; hassle; harry
(c) say, state, or perform again; ingeminate; restate
(d) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; adulterate; stretch
 
v. descry
(a) reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; disgrace; put down
(b) catch sight of; espy; spy
(c) make subservient
(d) call together
 
v. grovel
(a) place in a grave or tomb; inhume; lay to rest
(b) coat or impregnate with elastic material
(c) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; negate
(d) show submission or fear; creep; cringe; cower

 

v. domineer
(a) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner
(b) take away the enthusiasm of
(c) provide with military equipment
(d) move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern; waver
 
v. appease
(a) cause annoyance in; rag; get to; bother
(b) make peace with
(c) dismiss from priestly office
(d) stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of
 
v. rankle
(a) disturb the composure of; unsettle
(b) tease; drive
(c) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury; hobble; hitch
(d) gnaw into; grate
 
v. stultify
(a) mock; deride; degrade
(b) include in scope; comprehend; cover
(c) solidify, firm, or strengthen
(d) be immersed in
 
v. bedamn
(a) express moral judgements; sermonize; moralize
(b) charge falsely or with malicious intent; smirch; asperse; denigrate; calumniate; smear; besmirch
(c) reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
(d) wish harm upon; anathemize; imprecate; maledict

v. ebb (d) fall away or decline
v. fetter (c) chain; shackle
v. dilute (d) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; adulterate; stretch
v. descry (b) catch sight of; espy; spy
v. grovel (d) show submission or fear; creep; cringe; cower
v. domineer (a) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner
v. appease (b) make peace with
v. rankle (d) gnaw into; grate
v. stultify (a) mock; deride; degrade
v. bedamn (d) wish harm upon; anathemize; imprecate; maledict

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