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absolve collapse: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"; grant remission of a sin to; "The priest absolved him and told him to say ten Hail Mary's"

substitute collapse: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another; an athlete who plays only when a starter on the team is replaced; put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; be a substitute; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet"; act as a substitute; "She stood in for the soprano who suffered from a cold"

create collapse: create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"; pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity; "Don't disturb him--he is creating"; bring into existence; "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting"; invest with a new title, office, or rank; "Create one a peer"

turn off collapse: cause to feel intense dislike or distaste; make a turn; "turn off at the parking area"

spiel collapse: plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson); speak at great length (about something)

commute collapse: a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute"; exchange a penalty for a less severe one; move from one side of an equation to the other side without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other"; travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

charter collapse: a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights; includes the articles of incorporation and the certificate of incorporation; a contract to hire or lease transportation; grant a charter to

bespeak collapse: be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued"

forgive collapse: stop blaming or grant forgiveness; "I forgave him his infidelity"; "She cannot forgive him for forgetting her birthday"; absolve from payment; "I forgive you your debt"

forgiveness collapse: the act of excusing a mistake or offense; compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive

rumor collapse: gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth; tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman"

relegate collapse: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms"; refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"

communicate collapse: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"; transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"; administer communion; in church; be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"; join or connect; "The rooms communicated"

assign collapse: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"; decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"; transfer one's right to; give out or allot; "We were assigned new uniforms"

replace collapse: substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"; put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"

spend collapse: pay out; "spend money"; spend completely; "I spend my pocket money in two days"; pass (time) in a specific way; "How are you spending your summer vacation?"

framework collapse: a structure supporting or containing something; the underlying structure; "restoring the framework of the bombed building"; "it is part of the fabric of society"

signify collapse: convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?"; make known with a word or signal; "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"

civilize collapse: raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized"

motivate collapse: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"

announce collapse: announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"; foreshadow or presage; make known; make an announcement; "She denoted her feelings clearly"; give the names of; "He announced the winners of the spelling bee"

rotogravure collapse: printed material (text and pictures) produced by an intaglio printing process in a rotary press; printing by transferring an image from a photogravure plate to a cylinder in a rotary press

typography collapse: the craft of composing type and printing from it; art and technique of printing with movable type

gravure collapse: the act of intaglio printing; an intaglio print produced by gravure; a printing plate used in the process of gravure

lightening collapse: descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped

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