Words that rhyme with supersaturate

v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 2: cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car" [syn: accelerate, speed, speed up] [ant: decelerate, slow down]

v 1: work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of; "administer a program"; "she administers the funds" [syn: administer, administrate]

adj 1: mixed with impurities [syn: adulterate, adulterated, debased] v 1: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: load, adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase]

v 1: describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of; "sketch the outline of the book"; "outline his ideas" [syn: sketch, outline, adumbrate] 2: give to understand; "I insinuated that I did not like his wife" [syn: intimate, adumbrate, insinuate]

v 1: expose to fresh air; "aerate your old sneakers" [syn: air out, air, aerate] 2: aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter [syn: activate, aerate] 3: impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen; "oxygenate blood" [syn: oxygenate, oxygenize, oxygenise, aerate]

adj 1: clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head" [syn: agglomerate, agglomerated, agglomerative, clustered] n 1: volcanic rock consisting of large fragments fused together 2: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus] v 1: form into one cluster

v 1: transport (cargo) by air [syn: air-ship, airfreight, air-freight]

v 1: use alliteration as a form of poetry

v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen] 2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]

v 1: act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate]

n 1: a consonant pronounced with aspiration v 1: remove as if by suction; "aspirate the wound" [syn: aspirate, draw out, suck out] 2: pronounce with aspiration; of stop sounds 3: suck in (air)

v 1: state categorically [syn: assert, asseverate, maintain]

n 1: goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment

v 1: censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup" [syn: call on the carpet, take to task, rebuke, rag, trounce, reproof, lecture, reprimand, jaw, dress down, call down, scold, chide, berate, bawl out, remonstrate, chew out, chew up, have words, lambaste, lambast]

n 1: a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth

n 1: a salt or ester of boric acid

v 1: make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder" [syn: calibrate, graduate, fine-tune] 2: mark (the scale of a measuring instrument) so that it can be read in the desired units; "he calibrated the thermometer for the Celsius scale" 3: measure the caliber of; "calibrate a gun"

v 1: treat with camphor

n 1: an essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals; includes simple sugars with small molecules as well as macromolecular substances; are classified according to the number of monosaccharide groups they contain [syn: carbohydrate, saccharide, sugar]

n 1: a man who has been castrated and is incapable of reproduction; "eunuchs guarded the harem" [syn: eunuch, castrate] v 1: deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law" [syn: emasculate, castrate] 2: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate; "bowdlerize a novel" [syn: bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, castrate, shorten] 3: remove the testicles of a male animal [syn: emasculate, castrate, demasculinize, demasculinise] 4: remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" [syn: alter, neuter, spay, castrate]

v 1: behave as expected during of holidays or rites; "Keep the commandments"; "celebrate Christmas"; "Observe Yom Kippur" [syn: observe, celebrate, keep] 2: have a celebration; "They were feting the patriarch of the family"; "After the exam, the students were celebrating" [syn: celebrate, fete] 3: assign great social importance to; "The film director was celebrated all over Hollywood"; "The tenor was lionized in Vienna" [syn: lionize, lionise, celebrate]

v 1: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" [syn: think, cogitate, cerebrate]

n 1: any salt of chloric acid

n 1: a salt or ester of citric acid v 1: cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid

n 1: radially symmetrical animals having saclike bodies with only one opening and tentacles with stinging structures; they occur in polyp and medusa forms [syn: coelenterate, cnidarian]

v 1: work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group" [syn: collaborate, join forces, cooperate, get together] 2: cooperate as a traitor; "he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris"

v 1: mark by some ceremony or observation; "The citizens mark the anniversary of the revolution with a march and a parade" [syn: commemorate, mark] 2: call to remembrance; keep alive the memory of someone or something, as in a ceremony; "We remembered the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz"; "Remember the dead of the First World War" [syn: commemorate, remember] 3: be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead" [syn: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise, record]

v 1: to feel or express sympathy or compassion [syn: commiserate, sympathize, sympathise]

n 1: the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore [syn: dressed ore, concentrate] 2: a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water 3: a concentrated example of something; "the concentrate of contemporary despair" v 1: make denser, stronger, or purer; "concentrate juice" 2: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet] 3: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" [syn: centralize, centralise, concentrate] [ant: decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate] 4: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate] 5: draw together or meet in one common center; "These groups concentrate in the inner cities" 6: compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan" [syn: condense, concentrate, contract] 7: be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" [syn: boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate] 8: cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" [syn: reduce, boil down, concentrate]

adj 1: of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War; "Confederate soldiers" 2: united in a confederacy or league [syn: allied, confederate, confederative] n 1: a supporter of the Confederate States of America 2: someone who assists in a plot [syn: confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crime] 3: a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan) [syn: accomplice, confederate] v 1: form a group or unite; "The groups banded together" [syn: band together, confederate] 2: form a confederation with; of nations

adj 1: composed of heterogeneous elements gathered into a mass; "the conglomerate peoples of New England" n 1: a composite rock made up of particles of varying size [syn: pudding stone, conglomerate] 2: a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization [syn: conglomerate, empire] v 1: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]

adj 1: solemnly dedicated to or set apart for a high purpose; "a life consecrated to science"; "the consecrated chapel"; "a chapel dedicated to the dead of World War II" [syn: consecrated, consecrate, dedicated] [ant: desecrated] v 1: appoint to a clerical posts; "he was ordained in the Church" [syn: ordain, consecrate, ordinate, order] 2: give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devote] 3: dedicate to a deity by a vow [syn: vow, consecrate] 4: render holy by means of religious rites [syn: consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify] [ant: deconsecrate, desecrate, unhallow]

v 1: work together on a common enterprise of project; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group" [syn: collaborate, join forces, cooperate, get together]

v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate] 2: give evidence for [syn: validate, corroborate] 3: support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm; "The stories and claims were born out by the evidence" [syn: corroborate, underpin, bear out, support]

v 1: make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" [syn: make, create] 2: bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting" 3: pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating" 4: invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer" 5: create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" [syn: create, make] 6: create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" [syn: produce, make, create]

v 1: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard] [ant: accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up] 2: reduce the speed of; "He slowed down the car" [syn: decelerate, slow down] [ant: accelerate, speed, speed up]

v 1: remove the consecration from a person or an object [syn: desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate] [ant: bless, consecrate, hallow, sanctify]

v 1: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify] 2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify] 3: award a mark of honor, such as a medal, to; "He was decorated for his services in the military" 4: provide with decoration; "dress the windows" [syn: dress, decorate]

v 1: throw through or out of the window; "The rebels stormed the palace and defenestrated the President"

v 1: cause to burn rapidly and with great intensity; "care must be exercised when this substance is to be deflagrated" 2: burn with great heat and intense light; "the powder deflagrated"

adj 1: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast] n 1: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior [syn: pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate] v 1: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate] [ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate]

v 1: preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate] 2: remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate] 3: lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" [syn: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate] [ant: hydrate]

adj 1: carefully thought out in advance; "a calculated insult"; "with measured irony" [syn: deliberate, calculated, measured] 2: unhurried and with care and dignity; "walking at the same measured pace"; "with all deliberate speed" [syn: careful, deliberate, measured] v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate] 2: discuss the pros and cons of an issue [syn: debate, deliberate]

v 1: give an exhibition of to an interested audience; "She shows her dogs frequently"; "We will demo the new software in Washington" [syn: show, demo, exhibit, present, demonstrate] 2: establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment; "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture" [syn: prove, demonstrate, establish, show, shew] [ant: confute, disprove] 3: provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" [syn: attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence] 4: march in protest; take part in a demonstration; "Thousands demonstrated against globalization during the meeting of the most powerful economic nations in Seattle" [syn: demonstrate, march]

v 1: cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate] 2: charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone; "The journalists have defamed me!" "The article in the paper sullied my reputation" [syn: defame, slander, smirch, asperse, denigrate, calumniate, smear, sully, besmirch]

v 1: violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God" [syn: desecrate, profane, outrage, violate] 2: remove the consecration from a person or an object [syn: desecrate, unhallow, deconsecrate] [ant: bless, consecrate, hallow, sanctify]

v 1: become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" 2: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" [syn: devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate] [ant: convalesce, recover, recuperate]

v 1: break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" [ant: incorporate, integrate] 2: cause to undergo fission or lose particles 3: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose]

adj 1: marked by complexity and richness of detail; "an elaborate lace pattern" [syn: elaborate, luxuriant] 2: developed or executed with care and in minute detail; "a detailed plan"; "the elaborate register of the inhabitants prevented tax evasion"- John Buchan; "the carefully elaborated theme" [syn: detailed, elaborate, elaborated] v 1: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten] 2: produce from basic elements or sources; change into a more developed product; "The bee elaborates honey" 3: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" [syn: complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate] 4: work out in detail; "elaborate a plan" [syn: elaborate, work out]

v 1: leave one's country of residence for a new one; "Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period" [ant: immigrate]

n 1: the domain controlled by an emir 2: the office of an emir

v 1: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" [syn: enumerate, recite, itemize, itemise] 2: determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: count, number, enumerate, numerate]

v 1: bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium 2: bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights" [syn: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise] [ant: unbalance]

v 1: lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; "evaporate milk" [syn: evaporate, vaporize, vaporise] 2: cause to change into a vapor; "The chemist evaporated the water" [syn: evaporate, vaporise] 3: change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes" [syn: evaporate, vaporise] 4: become less intense and fade away gradually; "her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance" [syn: melt, disappear, evaporate]

adj 1: having been disembowelled v 1: surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ [syn: resect, eviscerate] 2: remove the contents of; "eviscerate the stomach" 3: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel, eviscerate, draw] 4: take away a vital or essential part of; "the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed"

v 1: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate] 2: do something to an excessive degree; "He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups" [syn: overdo, exaggerate]

v 1: exasperate or irritate [syn: exacerbate, exasperate, aggravate] 2: make furious [syn: infuriate, exasperate, incense] 3: make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate] [ant: ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate]

v 1: find repugnant; "I loathe that man"; "She abhors cats" [syn: abhor, loathe, abominate, execrate] 2: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment [syn: accurse, execrate, anathemize, comminate, anathemise, anathematize, anathematise]

v 1: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify]

v 1: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges; "The suspect was cleared of the murder charges" [syn: acquit, assoil, clear, discharge, exonerate, exculpate] [ant: convict]

v 1: clear out the chest and lungs; "This drug expectorates quickly" [syn: expectorate, clear out, drive out] 2: discharge (phlegm or sputum) from the lungs and out of the mouth [syn: expectorate, cough up, cough out, spit up, spit out]

v 1: to express great joy; "Who cannot exult in Spring?" [syn: exuberate, exult, rejoice, triumph, jubilate]

adj 1: united under a central government [syn: federate, federated] v 1: enter into a league for a common purpose; "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise] 2: unite on a federal basis or band together as a league; "The country was federated after the civil war" [syn: federate, federalize, federalise]

n 1: the product of filtration; a gas or liquid that has been passed through a filter v 1: remove by passing through a filter; "filter out the impurities" [syn: filter, filtrate, strain, separate out, filter out]

v 1: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 2: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]

v 1: bring into existence; "The new manager generated a lot of problems"; "The computer bug generated chaos in the office"; "The computer generated this image"; "The earthquake generated a tsunami" [syn: generate, bring forth] 2: give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, yield, return, give, generate] 3: produce (energy); "We can't generate enough power for the entire city"; "The hydroelectric plant needs to generate more electricity" 4: make children; "Abraham begot Isaac"; "Men often father children but don't recognize them" [syn: beget, get, engender, father, mother, sire, generate, bring forth]

v 1: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor" [syn: gyrate, spiral, coil] 2: revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate]

n 1: any compound that contains water of crystallization v 1: supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance; "the bicyclists must be hydrated frequently" 2: become hydrated and combine with water 3: cause to be hydrated; add water or moisture to; "hydrate your skin" [ant: dehydrate, desiccate, dry up, exsiccate]

v 1: clarify by giving an example of [syn: exemplify, illustrate, instance] 2: depict with an illustration 3: supply with illustrations; "illustrate a book with drawings"

v 1: migrate to a new environment; "only few plants can immigrate to the island" 2: introduce or send as immigrants; "Britain immigrated many colonists to America" 3: come into a new country and change residency; "Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century" [ant: emigrate]

v 1: commence officially [syn: inaugurate, kick off] 2: open ceremoniously or dedicate formally 3: be a precursor of; "The fall of the Berlin Wall ushered in the post-Cold War period" [syn: inaugurate, usher in, introduce]

v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand]

v 1: become reduced to ashes; "The paper incinerated quickly" 2: cause to undergo combustion; "burn garbage"; "The car burns only Diesel oil" [syn: burn, incinerate]

adj 1: formed or united into a whole [syn: incorporate, incorporated, integrated, merged, unified] v 1: make into a whole or make part of a whole; "She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal" [syn: integrate, incorporate] [ant: disintegrate] 2: include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's" [syn: incorporate, contain, comprise] 3: form a corporation 4: unite or merge with something already in existence; "incorporate this document with those pertaining to the same case"

adj 1: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous] v 1: become fixed or established; "indurated customs" 2: make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter" [syn: harden, indurate] [ant: soften] 3: become hard or harder; "The wax hardened" [syn: harden, indurate] [ant: soften] 4: cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate; "He was inured to the cold" [syn: inure, harden, indurate]

v 1: cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices 2: enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members; "The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor" [syn: infiltrate, penetrate] 3: pass into or through by filtering or permeating; "the substance infiltrated the material" 4: pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict [syn: infiltrate, pass through]

n 1: a person who shows no gratitude [syn: ingrate, thankless wretch, ungrateful person]

v 1: make into a whole or make part of a whole; "She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal" [syn: integrate, incorporate] [ant: disintegrate] 2: open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated" [syn: desegregate, integrate, mix] [ant: segregate] 3: become one; become integrated; "The students at this school integrate immediately, despite their different backgrounds" 4: calculate the integral of; calculate by integration [ant: differentiate]

v 1: penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot" [syn: interpenetrate, permeate] 2: spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks" [syn: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle]

adj 1: lacking a backbone or spinal column; "worms are an example of invertebrate animals" [syn: invertebrate, spineless] [ant: vertebrate] n 1: any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classification

v 1: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 2: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: quicken, invigorate] 3: make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit" [syn: enliven, liven, liven up, invigorate, animate] [ant: blunt, deaden] 4: impart vigor, strength, or vitality to; "Exercise is invigorating" [syn: invigorate, reinvigorate]

adj 1: feeling or showing extreme anger; "irate protesters"; "ireful words" [syn: irate, ireful]

v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell] 2: run or be performed again; "the function iterates"

v 1: travel from place to place, as for work; "an itinerating merchant"

adj 1: irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn; "lacerate leaves" [syn: lacerate, lacerated] 2: having edges that are jagged from injury [syn: lacerate, lacerated, mangled, torn] v 1: cut or tear irregularly 2: deeply hurt the feelings of; distress; "his lacerating remarks"

v 1: give equal rights to; of women and minorities [syn: emancipate, liberate] 2: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain] 3: grant freedom to; "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university" [syn: liberate, set free] 4: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition [syn: release, free, liberate]

v 1: add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation" [syn: elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge, flesh out, expand, expound, dilate] [ant: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten]

v 1: purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials

v 1: separate into constituents by soaking 2: become soft or separate and disintegrate as a result of excessive soaking; "the tissue macerated in the water" 3: soften, usually by steeping in liquid, and cause to disintegrate as a result; "macerate peaches"; "the gizzards macerates the food in the digestive system" 4: cause to grow thin or weak; "The treatment emaciated him" [syn: waste, emaciate, macerate]

n 1: a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses)

v 1: develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation; "He matured fast"; "The child grew fast" [syn: mature, maturate, grow] 2: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day-- what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate] 3: ripen and generate pus; "her wounds are festering" [syn: fester, maturate, suppurate]

v 1: to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" [syn: better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen] 2: get better; "The weather improved toward evening" [syn: better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate] [ant: decline, worsen]

adj 1: being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" [ant: immoderate] 2: not extreme; "a moderate penalty"; "temperate in his response to criticism" [syn: moderate, temperate] 3: marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; "moderate in his demands"; "restrained in his response" [syn: moderate, restrained] n 1: a person who takes a position in the political center [syn: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate, moderationist] v 1: preside over; "John moderated the discussion" [syn: moderate, chair, lead] 2: make less fast or intense; "moderate your speed" 3: lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger" [syn: control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate] 4: make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears" [syn: mince, soften, moderate] 5: make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" [syn: tone down, moderate, tame] 6: restrain [syn: chasten, moderate, temper]

v 1: provide commentary for a film, for example 2: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite]

n 1: any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid) v 1: treat with nitric acid, so as to change an organic compound into a nitrate; "nitroglycerin is obtained by nitrating glycerol"

adj 1: reduced to nothingness [syn: blotted out, obliterate, obliterated] v 1: mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech" [syn: kill, obliterate, wipe out] 2: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide] 3: remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps" [syn: obliterate, efface] 4: do away with completely, without leaving a trace

v 1: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: operate, run] 2: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function, work, operate, go, run] [ant: malfunction, misfunction] 3: handle and cause to function; "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever" [syn: operate, control] 4: perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense [syn: manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre, operate] 5: happen; "What is going on in the minds of the people?" 6: keep engaged; "engaged the gears" [syn: engage, mesh, lock, operate] [ant: disengage, withdraw] 7: perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life" [syn: operate on, operate]

v 1: talk pompously

v 1: write an orchestra score for 2: plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery" [syn: mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrate]

v 1: make too high an estimate of; "He overestimated his own powers" [syn: overestimate, overrate] [ant: underestimate, underrate]