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solemnize collapse: make solemn and grave; "This ceremony solemnized our hearts"; perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies; observe or perform with dignity or gravity; "The King solemnized this day of morning"

interrogate collapse: pose a series of questions to; "The suspect was questioned by the police"; "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion"; transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication

verbalize collapse: convert into a verb; "many English nouns have become verbalized"; be verbose; "This lawyer verbalizes and is rather tedious"

acquaint collapse: inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move"

teach collapse: an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718); accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is taught to obey her parents"; impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat"

familiarize collapse: make familiar or acquainted; "you should acquaint yourself with your new computer"; "We familiarized ourselves with the new surroundings"

forced collapse: made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"; forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"; produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"

perfuse collapse: force a fluid through (a body part or tissue); "perfuse a liver with a salt solution"

get across collapse: communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

converse collapse: a proposition obtained by conversion; turned about in order or relation; "transposed letters"; of words so related that one reverses the relation denoted by the other; "`parental' and `filial' are converse terms"; carry on a conversation

carry over collapse: transfer or persist from one stage or sphere of activity to another; transfer from one time period to the next; transport from one place or state to another; "Adam would have been carried over into the life eternal"; hold over goods to be sold for the next season

reluctant collapse: not eager; "foreigners stubbornly uneager to accept our ways"; "fresh from college and uneager for the moment to marry him"; "reluctant to help"; unwilling to become involved; "they were usually reluctant to socialize"; "reluctant to help"

adjoin collapse: attach or add; "I adjoin a copy of your my lawyer's letter"

refractory collapse: temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; "the refractory period of a muscle fiber"; not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains"

opposed collapse: being in opposition or having an opponent; "two bitterly opposed schools of thought"; in opposition to (a policy or attitude etc.); "an opposing vote"

translate collapse: change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"; change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation; determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA; restate (words) from one language into another language; "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U.S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries?"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U.N."; express, as in simple and less technical language; "Can you translate the instructions in this manual for a layman?"; "Is there a need to translate the psychiatrist's remarks?"; bring to a certain spiritual state; subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body; be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way; "poetry often does not translate"; "Tolstoy's novels translate well into English"; be equivalent in effect; "the growth in income translates into greater purchasing power"

extradite collapse: hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"

relate collapse: give an account of; "The witness related the events"; have or establish a relationship to; "She relates well to her peers"; be in a relationship with; "How are these two observations related?"

wary collapse: marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers"

correspond collapse: exchange messages; "My Russian pen pal and I have been corresponding for several years"

converge collapse: come together so as to form a single product; "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"; move or draw together at a certain location; "The crowd converged on the movie star"; be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point"; approach a limit as the number of terms increases without limit

fractious collapse: unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"; stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

unfriendly collapse: not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"; not easy to understand or use; "user-unfriendly"; not friendly; "an unfriendly act of aggression"; "an inimical critic"

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