bedaub

bedaub (vt)

1. to smear all over; besmear; soil.

2. to ornament gaudily or excessively.

eschew

eschew (vt)

1. To avoid; to shun (usually applied to ideas or concepts and not to concrete objects).

sanguine

sanguine (adj)

1. (color) Having the color of blood; red.

2. Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.

3. Warm; ardent.

4. Anticipating the best; not despondent; confident; full of hope.

5. (Obsolete): irresponsibly mirthful; indulgent in pleasure to the exclusion of important matters.

sanguine (n)

1. (colour) Blood color; red.

2. Anything of a blood-red color, as cloth.

3. Bloodstone.

4. Red crayon.

sanguine (vt)

1. To stain with blood; to impart the color of blood to; to ensanguine.

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.

foment

foment (vt)

1. To apply a poultice to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge.

2. To cherish and promote, to encourage; to instigate.

fecundate

fecundate (vt)

1. To make fertile.

2. To inseminate.

extirpate

extirpate (vt)

1. To pull up by the roots; uproot.

2. To destroy completely; to annihilate.

3. To surgically remove.

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.

ensonify

ensonify (vt)

1. To fill with sound.

efface

efface (vt)

1. To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible.

2. To cause to disappear as if by rubbbing out or striking out.

3. (reflexive) To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence.
Always the shy violet, Edna effaced herself in front of her sister, of whom she was in awe.

4. (medicine) Of the cervix during pregnancy, to thin and stretch in preparation for labor.

excoriate

excoriate (vt)

1. To wear off the skin of; to chafe or flay.

2. To strongly renounce or censure.

enounce

to enounce (vt)

1. To say or pronounce; to enunciate.

2. To declare or proclaim.

3. To state unequivocally.

excarnate

excarnate (adj)

1. Deprived of flesh.

excarnate (vt)

1. To deprive of flesh.

perpetuate

perpetuate (vt)

1. To make something perpetual.

2. To prolong the existence of something.

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.

educe

educe (vt)

1. To draw out or bring out; elicit.

circumambulate

circumambulate (vt)

1. To walk around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.

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.