coruscate

coruscate (vi)

1. To give off light; to reflect in flashes; to sparkle.

2. To exhibit brilliant technique or style.

defenstrate

defenstrate (vi)

1. (computing) (slang) To stop using the Windows operating system.

defenestrate (vt)

1. To eject or throw (someone or something) from a window.

peregrinate

peregrinate (vi)

1. To travel from place to place, or from one country to another, especially on foot; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.

peregrinate (vt)

2. To travel through a specific place.

extemporize

extemporize (vi)

1. To make or create extempore.

2. (music) To compose extemporaneously or improvise.

extemporize (vt)

1. To do something, particularly to perform or speak, without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.

2. To do something in a makeshift way.

infer

infer (vi)

1. To draw a conclusion (by reasoning).

infer (vt)

1. To conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence.

2. To surmise or reason from circumstance.

cachinnate

cachinnate (vi)

1. To laugh loudly, immoderately, or too often.

ablate

ablate (vi)

1. To undergo ablation.

ablate (vt)

To remove or decrease something by the process of ablation.

abjure

abjure (vi)

1. To renounce on oath.

abjure (vt)

1. To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow.

2. To renounce or reject with solemnity; to recant; to abandon forever; to reject; repudiate.

maunder

maunder (vi)

1. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.

2. To wander or walk aimlessly.

absquatulate

absquatulate (vi)

1. To leave quickly or in a hurry; to take oneself off; to decamp; to depart.

2. To cause to absquatulate.

3. To die.

4. To argue.

prevaricate

prevaricate (vi)

1. To shift or turn from the direct course, or from truth; to evade the truth; to waffle or be (intentionally) ambiguous.

2. To speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble.

3. To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

mountebank

mountebank (n)

1. One who sells dubious medicines.

2. One who sells by deception; a con artist; a charlatan.

mountebank (vi)

1. To act as a mountebank.

pontificate

pontificate (n)

1. The state or term of office of a pontiff or pontifex.

pontificate (vi)

1. To preside as a bishop, especially at mass.

2. To act like a pontiff; to be pompous, or express one's position as if it is absolutely correct.

3. To speak in a patronizing, supercilious or pompous manner, especially at length.

supinate

supinate (vt)

1. (anatomy): To twist the forearm so as to turn the palm of the hand towards the body or forwards, thereby contracting the biceps brachii.

2. (anatomy): To twist the foot so the weight is on the outer edge.

supinate (vi)

1. To become supinated.

ululate

to ululate (vi)

1. To howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy.

trudge

trudge (vi)

1. To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps.

guffaw

guffaw (n)

1. A boisterous laugh.

guffaw (vi)

1. To laugh boisterously.

rodomontade

rodomontade (adj)

1. Pretentiously boastful.

rotomontade (n)

1. Vain boasting; a rant; pretentious behaviour.

rotomontade (vi)

1. To boast, brag or bluster pretentiously.


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winnow

winnow (vi)

1. To free or separate grain or the like from chaff or refuse matter, usually by means of wind.

2. To move about with a flapping motion, as of wings; to flutter.

3. To fan; set in motion by means of wind; specifically, to expose (grain) to a current of air in order to separate and drive off chaff, refuse particles, etc.

winnow (vt)

1. To blow upon; to toss about by blowing.

2. To separate, expel, or disperse by or as by fanning or blowing; to sift or weed out; to separate or distinguish, as one thing from another.

3. To set in motion or vibration; to beat as with a fan or wings.

4. To wave to and fro; to flutter; to flap.

5. To pursue or accomplish with a waving or flapping motion, as of wings.

6. Figuratively, to subject to a process analogous to the winnowing of grain; to separate into parts according to kind; to sift; to analyze or scrutinize carefully; to examine; to test.