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- -->>:abdicate::to give up; renounce
- -->>:aggrandize::to make great or greater; to enlarge; to intensify
- -->>:avow::to declare openly; to acknowledge
- -->>:botch::to patch or mend clumsily; to bungle
- -->>:catapult::to hurl through the air; to throw
- -->>:concoct::to devise or fabricate, as in an excuse
- -->>:crimp::to bend into shape
- -->>:deride::to laugh at contemptuously
- -->>:distend::to stretch out; to swell from within
- -->>:engender::to cause to exist; produce
- -->>:expiate::to atone for; to make amends for
- -->>:forbear::to refrain from some action; to cease
- -->>:harry::to harass in any way; to raid or pillage
- -->>:infer::to derive a conclusion from facts or premises
- -->>:jabber::to speak rapidly without making any sense
- -->>:mar::to do harm to; to damage
- -->>:mulct::to defraud and cheat someone
- -->>:pervade::to spread through every part of; permeate
- -->>:rhapsodize::to speak or write of something with extravagant praise
- -->>:undulate::to cause to move like a wave; to give a wavy appearance to